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Compound

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone Slang
Added Apr 06, 2026 · 1 definition
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Compound/yard (Compound)

"Sweep di compound. (Sweep the yard.)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Apr 06, 2026

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🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
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April 2026

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Compound 🇸🇸 South Sudan

Used to refer to the enclosed housing compounds where many NGOs or expats live

"I'll meet you at the UN compound."
Compound 🇪🇬 Egypt

كومپاوند - Compound

"ساكن في كومپاوند (Living in a compound) - Saken fi compound"

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🌍 "Compound" Across Africa

This word is also used in 9 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Compound 🇸🇸 South Sudan

Used to refer to the enclosed housing compounds where many NGOs or expats live
Compound 🇪🇬 Egypt

كومپاوند - Compound
Compound 🇨🇲 Cameroon

Compound (Compound/yard)
Compound 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea

Complejo residencial de empresa (Company residential compound)
Compound 🇱🇷 Liberia

Family property/Yard (Compound)
Compound 🇳🇬 Nigeria

Shared residence (Shared residence)
Compound 🇷🇼 Rwanda

Ikigo (Complex)
Compound 🇿🇲 Zambia

Mining township
Compound 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

Kompaundi (compound)

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