Kabwe

[kahb-wey]

noun

1. a city in central Zambia: oldest mining town; cave site where the fossil skull of Rhodesian man (now calledKabwe 1 ) was found.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Kabwe¹

First recorded in 1970–75; shortening of Kabwe-Ka Mukuba “ore; smelting” in Lenje, a Bantu language spoken in central Zambia

Example Sentences

Groundwater-fed irrigation of maize in Kabwe, Zambia.

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Anther opposition politician, Zito Kabwe, told AFP news agency that the president's decision to lift the ban was a "big move".

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We’ve heard about those emails before — last week, developers like Robert Kabwe and Emilia Lazer-Walker reported getting them, and expressed distress that they had 30 days to update their apps, or they’d be removed from the store.

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Kabwe expressed a similar idea, pointing out that you can still buy console games from the 2000s.

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Kabwe says on Twitter that Apple is threatening to remove his fully-functional game, Motivoto, because it hasn’t been updated since March 2019.

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