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Definition of Donga
1. Noun. (Australia) A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation. ¹
2. Noun. (South African English) A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Donga
1. a gully in a veldt [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Donga
Literary usage of Donga
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa: From the Earliest by Hugh Murray, John Leyden (1818)
"donga.—The Bakr-el-Abiad. WHILE Mr Park, with so much intrepidity and perseverance,
was attempting to explore Western Africa, according to the plan of the ..."
2. Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon by Alice Blanche Balfour (1895)
"We clambered up through one of these gaps, and were well rewarded by a fine view
of the Maluti Mountains, the highest peaks of which HILL AND donga NEAR ..."
3. Egypt as it is: With a Map, Taken from the Most Recent Survey by James Carlile McCoan (1877)
"... donga—Sir S. Baker's Expedition—Colonel Gordon—Successful Results of his First
Expedition—His new Commission as Governor-General— Expressed ..."
4. My Australian Girlhood: Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life by Campbell Praed, Rosa Caroline (Murray-Prior) Praed (1902)
"... OF donga BILLY /TT*HERE was a white man on the river, who one _L morning looked
out and saw a great mob of Blacks camped before his head station. ..."
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