CHICHEWA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chichewa mean? 

• CHICHEWA (noun)
  The noun CHICHEWA has 2 senses:

1. a member of the Bantu-speaking people of Malawi and eastern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe

2. the Bantu language of the Chewa of east central Africa

  Familiarity information: CHICHEWA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHICHEWA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Bantu-speaking people of Malawi and eastern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cewa; Chewa; Chichewa

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

African (a native or inhabitant of Africa)

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

Malawi; Nyasaland; Republic of Malawi (a landlocked republic in southern central Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964)

Northern Rhodesia; Republic of Zambia; Zambia (a republic in central Africa; formerly controlled by Great Britain and called Northern Rhodesia until it gained independence within the commonwealth in 1964)

Republic of Zimbabwe; Rhodesia; Southern Rhodesia; Zimbabwe (a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Bantu language of the Chewa of east central Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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