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Bantu   /bˈæntu/   Listen
adjective
Bantu  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the Bantu language group Bantu (definition 2); as, Bantu languages.
2.
Of or pertaining to the Bantu people (definition 1). "The Bantu population of Sierra Leone"


proper noun
Bantu  n.  
1.
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; or as in Watusi.
2.
The family of languages spoken by the Bantu people (definition 1).





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Bantu" Quotes from Famous Books



... Akka, Doko, Tiki- Tiki, Wambilikimo ("two-cubit men"), the stunted race that share the central regions of Intertropical Africa with the abnormally tall peoples who speak dialects of the Great South African tongue, miscalled the "Bantu." Hole makes the Pygmies "monkeys," a word we have borrowed from the Italians (monichio a monoape) and quotes Ptolemy, ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton


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