Twan.adj.

Brit.

/twɑː/, U.S.

/twɑ/

Forms: Also (plural) Abatwa, Batwa, Watwa.

Etymology: < Bantu twa foreigner, outsider, originally applied by Bantu people to Bushmen, pygmies, and others.

(A member of) a pygmy people inhabiting parts of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Also attributive or as adj.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [noun]

Numidian?a1425

Nubianc1450

Massylian1606

catadupes1607

Mauritanian1607

Marmarican1627

Niam-Niam1861

Watusi1863

Zande1873

Twa1878

Tutsi1929

Cyrenaican1942

Ubangi1953

Chadian1960

Saharan1970

Sahrawi1976

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [adjective]

Nubian1600

Somali1809

Meroitic1852

Zande1873

Somalian1884

Ubangi1915

Twa1951

Chadian1960

Watusi1960

1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. xvii. 470 There is a race of dwarfs somewhere west of Mkinyaga called Mpundu, and another called the Batwa or Watwa.

1907 Rep. 76th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1906 689 [The San] are called Baroa by the Basuto, Abatwa by the Kafirs, San by themselves.

1920 E. W. Smith & A. M. Dale Ila-Speaking Peoples N. Rhodesia p. xxvi Along the Kafue are the river people, the Batwa. Their name is widely found in Africa: the Bushmen in the south are called Abatwa by the Zulus and Baroa by the Basuto.

1951 E. Colson in E. Colson & M. Gluckman Seven Tribes Brit. Cent. Afr. II. ii. 109 He pays the Twa neighbour only a few sticks of tobacco. The Twa is then expected to tell all later comers that this site is reserved.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 318/1 Examples of Pygmoid groups living in close symbiosis with other peoples are the Twa.

1988 Arena Autumn–Winter 58/2 The Twa, pigmy people who make up just one per cent of the population [of Burundi] and don't cause anyone any fuss.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

TWA n. U.S. Trans World Airlines (formerly, until 1950, Transcontinental and Western Air).

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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun] > public service airline > specific

Skybus1919

K.L.M.1933

TWA1933

skytrain1971

1933 Meccano Mag. Apr. 270/2 T.W.A. state that most of the transcontinental air mail is carried by their machines.

1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vi. 93 They were flying back again via TWA.

1960 Daily Mail 13 Dec. 7/8 A champagne party was laid on for Mr. Steven Mueller, 2,000,000th passenger to leave London in a TWA jet airliner... There was a hitch when Mr. Mueller arrived. He is just two years and four months old. The red carpet treatment went to his mother.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 17 Apr. 20/5 Pressed by banks that had lent TWA millions, he sold his TWA stock for $546,549,171.

单词	twa
释义	Twan.adj. Brit. /twɑː/, U.S. /twɑ/ Forms: Also (plural) Abatwa, Batwa, Watwa. Etymology: < Bantu twa foreigner, outsider, originally applied by Bantu people to Bushmen, pygmies, and others. (A member of) a pygmy people inhabiting parts of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Also attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [noun] Numidian?a1425 Nubianc1450 Massylian1606 catadupes1607 Mauritanian1607 Marmarican1627 Niam-Niam1861 Watusi1863 Zande1873 Twa1878 Tutsi1929 Cyrenaican1942 Ubangi1953 Chadian1960 Saharan1970 Sahrawi1976 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [adjective] Nubian1600 Somali1809 Meroitic1852 Zande1873 Somalian1884 Ubangi1915 Twa1951 Chadian1960 Watusi1960 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. xvii. 470 There is a race of dwarfs somewhere west of Mkinyaga called Mpundu, and another called the Batwa or Watwa. 1907 Rep. 76th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1906 689 [The San] are called Baroa by the Basuto, Abatwa by the Kafirs, San by themselves. 1920 E. W. Smith & A. M. Dale Ila-Speaking Peoples N. Rhodesia p. xxvi Along the Kafue are the river people, the Batwa. Their name is widely found in Africa: the Bushmen in the south are called Abatwa by the Zulus and Baroa by the Basuto. 1951 E. Colson in E. Colson & M. Gluckman Seven Tribes Brit. Cent. Afr. II. ii. 109 He pays the Twa neighbour only a few sticks of tobacco. The Twa is then expected to tell all later comers that this site is reserved. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 318/1 Examples of Pygmoid groups living in close symbiosis with other peoples are the Twa. 1988 Arena Autumn–Winter 58/2 The Twa, pigmy people who make up just one per cent of the population [of Burundi] and don't cause anyone any fuss. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas TWA TWA n. U.S. Trans World Airlines (formerly, until 1950, Transcontinental and Western Air). ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun] > public service airline > specific Skybus1919 K.L.M.1933 TWA1933 skytrain1971 1933 Meccano Mag. Apr. 270/2 T.W.A. state that most of the transcontinental air mail is carried by their machines. 1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vi. 93 They were flying back again via TWA. 1960 Daily Mail 13 Dec. 7/8 A champagne party was laid on for Mr. Steven Mueller, 2,000,000th passenger to leave London in a TWA jet airliner... There was a hitch when Mr. Mueller arrived. He is just two years and four months old. The red carpet treatment went to his mother. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 17 Apr. 20/5 Pressed by banks that had lent TWA millions, he sold his TWA stock for $546,549,171. extracted from Tn. < n.adj.1878 as lemmas
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