2 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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: Watusi n : a member of a Bantu speaking people living in Rwanda and Burundi [syn: {Tutsi}, {Watutsi}]
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