ZULU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Zulu mean? 

• ZULU (noun)
  The noun ZULU has 3 senses:

1. a member of the tall Negroid people of eastern South Africa; some live in KwaZulu-Natal under the traditional clan system but many now work in the cities

2. a community of Negroid people in eastern South Africa

3. a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa

  Familiarity information: ZULU used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZULU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the tall Negroid people of eastern South Africa; some live in KwaZulu-Natal under the traditional clan system but many now work in the cities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

African (a native or inhabitant of Africa)

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

KwaZulu-Natal; Natal (a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A community of Negroid people in eastern South Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Instance hypernyms:

community (a group of people living in a particular local area)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

Nguni (a group of southern Bantu languages)