TSWANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tswana mean? 

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

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

2. the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana

  Familiarity information: TSWANA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TSWANA (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 ("Tswana" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Tswana" 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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Sechuana; Setswana; Tswana

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

Sotho (any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho)

 Context examples 

Kgala, Tswana natives called it, the great thirst.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)