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1. (n.) Bantu
a family of more than 200 languages, a branch of the Benue-Congo family, whose speakers make up most of the population of central and S Africa.
2. Bantu
(used with a pl. v.) the group of African peoples who speak Bantu languages.
3. Bantu
a member of a Bantu-speaking people.
4. Bantu
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bantu or the Bantu peoples.
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) Bantu
a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
2. (adj) Bantu, Bantoid language
a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
3. (adj) Bantu
of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture
"the Bantu population of Sierra Leone"
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. Bantu
the name of most of the races, with their languages, that occupy Africa from 6° N. lat. to 20° S.; are negroid rather than negro, being in several respects superior; the name, however, suggests rather a linguistic than an ethnological distinction, the language differing radically from all other known forms of speech—the inflection, for one thing, chiefly initial, not final.
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