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Zimbabwe|zɪmˈbɑːbweɪ, -bæb-|
Also zimbabwe.
[The name in Bantu of the first such ruin to be discovered, in what is now the State of Zimbabwe.]
One of the numerous ruined stone-walled settlements scattered across Zimbabwe and neighbouring countries and dating from medieval times.
1902Hall & Neal Anc. Ruins Rhodesia iii. 36 They introduced fresh features in building, as shown..by new Zimbabwes, which they erected. 1929J. Buchan Courts of Morning ii. 288 The subsidiary towers..recalled in their shape pictures she had seen of the Rhodesian Zimbabwes. 1931G. Caton-Thompson (title) The Zimbabwe culture. 1963R. Summers in E. Bacon Vanished Civilisations iii. 36/2 Other ‘Zimbabwes’—over 200 of them..—lie scattered all over Southern Rhodesia. 1976Times 17 July 14/6 Another, early, stone-walled zimbabwe of the type best known from the Great Zimbabwe ruins in Rhodesia has been discovered..in Mozambique. 1980Nature 1 May 5/3 In 1975..after independence in Mozambique one of the Zimbabwes—Manyikeni, 50 km west of Vilanculos was excavated. |