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BATSWANA

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Overview

BATSWANA (noun)
  The noun BATSWANA has 1 sense:

1. a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africaplay

  Familiarity information: BATSWANA used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


BATSWANA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Batswana; Bechuana; Tswana

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

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

Holonyms ("Batswana" is a member of...):

Botswana; Republic of Botswana (a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s)

Republic of South Africa; South Africa (a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers))


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