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Bantu definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture; "the Bantu population of Sierra Leone" n
1: a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
2: a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent [syn: Bantu, Bantoid language]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural Bantu or Bantus) Etymology: ba-, a plural noun classifier + -ntu, noun base meaning “person” in several Bantu languages Date: 1862 1. a family of Niger-Congo languages spoken in central and southern Africa 2. a member of any of a group of African peoples who speak Bantu languages

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. (pl. same or Bantus) 1 often offens. a a large group of Negroid peoples of central and southern Africa. b a member of any of these peoples. 2 the group of languages spoken by them. --adj. of or relating to these peoples or languages. Etymology: Bantu, = people

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bantu Ban"tu, n. A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa. These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable -ntu, a person. -- Ban"tu, a.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bantu Ban"tu, n. A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa. These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable -ntu, a person. -- Ban"tu, a.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Bantu means belonging or relating to a group of peoples in central and southern Africa. ADJ: ADJ n 2. Bantu languages belong to a group of languages spoken in central and southern Africa. ADJ: ADJ n