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NILOTIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group
Synonyms:
Nilotic; Nilotic language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Nilotic" is a kind of...):
Chari-Nile (a group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Nilotic"):
Dinka; Luo; Masai (a Nilotic language)
Derivation:
Nilotic (of or relating to or constituting the Nilotic group of languages)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or constituting the Nilotic group of languages
Example:
Nilotic syntax
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Nilotic (a group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group)
Derivation:
Nilotic (a group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to the Nile River or the people living near it
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Nile (the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization)
Derivation:
Nile (the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization)
