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- noun The
currency ofAngola
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He also said there must be a single rate of exchange for the national currency, the kwanza, which is officially worth 55,000 to the dollar but on the black market fetches 240,000.
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The name was drawn from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning the "first fruits of the harvest."
Warren J. Blumenfeld: Challenging The Christian Month Of December Warren J. Blumenfeld 2011
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The name was drawn from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning the "first fruits of the harvest."
Warren J. Blumenfeld: Challenging The Christian Month Of December Warren J. Blumenfeld 2011
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As at Thanksgiving, the Kwanzaa table is bountiful, but the accent isn't turkey, it's -- as the name suggests, matunda ya kwanza, the first fruits of the harvest, from the traditional foods of Africa to the fusion dishes of the African diaspora, in the Caribbean, Latin America and here.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: First Fruits of the Harvest Ellen Kanner 2010
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Sasa sijui nisemaje ..... kwanza nataka wote wajue kwamba sio muhimu kwa wazungu wa kawaida kuelewa maneno haya.
Archive 2008-06-01 jen 2008
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As at Thanksgiving, the Kwanzaa table is bountiful, but the accent isn't turkey, it's -- as the name suggests, matunda ya kwanza, the first fruits of the harvest, from the traditional foods of Africa to the fusion dishes of the African diaspora, in the Caribbean, Latin America and here.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: First Fruits of the Harvest Ellen Kanner 2010
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Sasa sijui nisemaje ..... kwanza nataka wote wajue kwamba sio muhimu kwa wazungu wa kawaida kuelewa maneno haya.
mbona kitu kigumu sana jen 2008
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As at Thanksgiving, the Kwanzaa table is bountiful, but the accent isn't turkey, it's -- as the name suggests, matunda ya kwanza, the first fruits of the harvest, from the traditional foods of Africa to the fusion dishes of the African diaspora, in the Caribbean, Latin America and here.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: First Fruits of the Harvest Ellen Kanner 2010
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As at Thanksgiving, the Kwanzaa table is bountiful, but the accent isn't turkey, it's -- as the name suggests, matunda ya kwanza, the first fruits of the harvest, from the traditional foods of Africa to the fusion dishes of the African diaspora, in the Caribbean, Latin America and here.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: First Fruits of the Harvest Ellen Kanner 2010
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Happy solstice, festivus, squidmas, hannukah, kwanza, christmas and freeze your assoff in saskatchewan day ;
burntsox commented on the word kwanza
... to be confused with Kwanzaa, the African-American holiday.
December 22, 2007