1. a city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia; a copper mining center; former name (until 1966) was Elisabethville; [syn: Lubumbashi, Elisabethville]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Lubumbashi
n 1: a city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia; a
copper mining center; former name (until 1966) was
Elisabethville [syn: Lubumbashi, Elisabethville]