Library / English Dictionary

SHONA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Shona" is a kind of...):

Bantoid language; Bantu (a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of a Bantu tribe living in present-day Zimbabwe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Shona" is a kind of...):

Bantu (a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the culture of the Shonas

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Shona (a member of a Bantu tribe living in present-day Zimbabwe)

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