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单词 sowetan
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Sowetann.adj.

Brit. /səˈwɛtən/, U.S. /səˈwɛtn/
Forms: Also Sowetoan.
Etymology: < the name of Soweto (acronym < South Western Townships , a group of Black African townships outside Johannesburg, South Africa) + -an suffix.Soweto was a focus of fierce anti-apartheid protests resulting in violent reaction by the state, especially in 1976.
A. n.
A native or inhabitant of Soweto.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > countries or regions
Angolan1600
Angola1653
Malay1765
South African1806
Ngwaketsea1832
bushboya1834
Kapenaar1834
Transkeian1847
bosch-man1849
Natalian1850
burgher1879
Transvaaler1887
veldman1895
Rhodesian1897
Vaalpens1899
backvelder1911
plattelander1934
southwester1960
Zimbabwean1961
Zambian1963
Botswanian1966
Botswanan1967
Namibian1968
Ciskeian1973
Sowetan1974
1974 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 27 Oct. (Mag.) 2 A 10 per cent poll would suggest that most Sowetans were either wholly apathetic or boycotted the elections entirely.
1977 Time 10 Jan. 24/1 After the fire-bombing,..the shebeen queens (women that operate most speakeasies) duly shut up shop, and Sowetoans did their Christmas drinking quietly at home.
1978 Washington Post 14 Jan. a13/1 Many stayed away out of fear, Sowetans said.
1983 Economist 28 May 16/1 Had it not been for the South African police, whose brutality drove some 5,000 young Sowetans abroad,..the ANC would constitute no conceivable threat.
1984 Financial Times 20 Feb. (Survey) p. v/7 The West Rand Administration Board..regulates virtually every part of the Sowetans' existence.
1987 Christian Sci. Monitor 10 Mar. 12/2 Each morning..about 500,000 Sowetans board trains, buses, or one of some 4,000 privately run mini-bus ‘taxis’ into Johannesburg.
1990 Independent 10 Feb. (Mag.) 34 Nothing reveals more eloquently the essentially bourgeois aspirations of average Sowetans than the fixation they have on weddings.
2010 J. Bieber Soweto 13/1 Although almost every Sowetan speaks all black South African languages, the issue of ethnicity was one of the biggest problems that we faced.
B. adj.
Of or relating to Soweto or its inhabitants; native to or residing in Soweto.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > South Africa > Johannesburg
Sowetan1977
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [adjective] > countries or regions
Angolan1625
South African1787
Malay1811
Ciskeian1848
Zambian1959
Zimbabwean1961
Namibian1968
Sowetan1977
1977 Washington Post 23 Dec. a17/2 Police have picked up steadily increasing numbers of ‘shopping bag’ or ‘suitcase’ bombs…Combined with the increasing flow of Sowetan students returning from terrorist training. This makes for a high-risk bomb situation.
1983 Christian Sci. Monitor 1 Aug. 4/3 His watchful Sowetan neighbors look for signs he is ‘selling out’.
1987 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 4: Middle East, Afr. & Latin Amer. (B.B.C.) 16 Feb. ME/8493/B1 The survey..found that Sowetan families were best off in the country.
2010 J. Bieber Soweto 9/1 Sometimes it was a certain facet of Sowetan society I felt I needed to portray.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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