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What does Africa mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Africa? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica.
  2. (historical) A province of the Roman Empire containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.
  3. A surname​.
Name
  1. A female given name of Irish origin.
    1. (meaning, history) Pleasant.
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Caught the day before far off the coast of West Africa, they have been airfreighted to London for dinner.
We had to memorize the names of all the countries in Africa.
The organization was awarded for its efforts to prevent further desertification in Africa.
Anyone who thinks the ANC will form the government of South Africa is living in cloud cuckoo-land.
One of the rules of journalism is that news from Africa is always bad news.
In South Africa the Boers and Cape Dutch collectively known as the Afrikaners.

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