Word Meanings - BANTU - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: BANTU

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. -- Ban"tu, a.

Related words: (words related to BANTU)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• EQUATORIALLY
  So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• AFRICAN
  A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• EQUATORIAL
  Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• MEMBER
  A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. We have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office. Rom. xii. 4. 2. Hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body; as: A part
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• BEGIN
  beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du-ginnan, Sw. begynna, Dan. begynde); pref. be- + an assumed ginnan. sq. root31. See Gin to 1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• NAMESAKE
  One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.
• OCCUPY
  1. To hold possession; to be an occupant. "Occupy till I come." Luke xix. 13. 2. To follow business; to traffic.
• THESE
  The plural of this. See This.
• AFRICANIZE
  To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett.
• SOUTHERN
  A Southerner.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• REMEMBER
  re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See 1. To have come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect;
• NONMEMBERSHIP
  State of not being a member.
• REMEMBERABLE
  Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.
• FOREREMEMBERED
  Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.
• EURAFRIC; EURAFRICAN
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent.