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1. (n.) Berber
a member of any of a group of peoples of the mountains of North Africa and mountains and oases of the Sahara, including, in most usages, the Tuaregs.
2. Berber
the group of closely related languages spoken by these peoples: a branch of Afroasiatic.
Etymology: (1835–45; < Ar barbar < Gk bárbaros; see barbarous)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) Berber
a member of an indigenous people of northern Africa
2. (noun) Berber
a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) berber
a member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. berber
native language spoken in the mountainous parts of Barbary.
2. berber
a town in Nubia, on the Nile, occupied by the English; starting-point of caravans for the Red Sea; railway was begun to Suakim, but abandoned.
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