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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • The second-largest continent, connected to Asia by the Isthmus of Suez and lying between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

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  • proper noun historical A province of the Roman Empire containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.
  • proper noun The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica. It holds the following countries:

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  • noun the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean

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  • CLANCY: Trevor Ncube, I want to thank you very much for coming in, talking with us here on INSIDE AFRICA and sharing your expertise and some of the best contacts in all of southern Africa for what is going on inside Zimbabwe.

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2008 2008

  • JERRY COOVADIA, SOUTH AFRICA MEDICAL COUNCIL: When someone like the president of a country in Africa comes up publicly with a suggestion which is certainly not rooted in any credible experiments or any credible proof, then one is especially worried.

    CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2007 2007

  • JEFF KOINANGE, CNN AFRICA CORRESPONDENT: I've been covering Africa now more than a dozen years.

    CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2007 2007

  • CLIMATE NETWORK AFRICA: I find it actually immoral on behalf of the industrialized countries to make Africa suffer again because of their actions, when we have suffered slavery.

    CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2007 2007

  • EDITOR, AFRICA INVESTOR MAGAZINE: I think Africa is slowly getting on to the radar screen of international investors.

    CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2007 2007

  • /AFRICA: Even with the challenges that are out there, this event shows that economic development, trade and investment, this is what Africa wants.

    CNN Transcript May 27, 2006 2006

  • JEFF KOINANGE, CNN AFRICA CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Twelve - year-old Koketso Motshoane is just one of 48 million orphans in Africa.

    CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2006 2006

  • MCEDWARDS: Well, this week on "INSIDE AFRICA," talk show host Oprah Winfrey and her new project in Africa.

    CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2006 2006

  • STEPHEN HAYES, CORPORATE COUNCIL ON AFRICA: I think this is a reach - out by Africa, and I think if we don't take advantage of it, we've missed out.

    CNN Transcript May 27, 2006 2006

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