3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bantu \Ban"tu\, prop. 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; or as in {Watusi}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. the family of languages spoken by the Bantu people (definition 1). [PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bantu \Ban"tu\ adj. 1. Of or pertaining to the Bantu language group Bantu (definition 2); as, Bantu languages. [WordNet 1.5] 2. of or pertaining to the Bantu people (definition 1). The Bantu population of Sierra Leone [WordNet 1.5] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: Bantu adj : 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: {Bantoid language}]
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