nnoun.persona member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South AfricaDerivationally Related Form:Bantu
Hypernyms:African
Inherited Hypernyms:bantuafricanpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:bantuafricanpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
Direct Hyponyms:BatswanaBechuanaChilubaHereroHutuLubaShonaSothoTswanaTutsiWatusiWatutsi
Full Hyponyms:hererohutulubashonasothotswanatutsi
nnoun.communicationa family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continentSynset:Bantoid language Bantu
Derivationally Related Form:Bantu
Hypernyms:Niger-Congo
Inherited Hypernyms:bantuniger-congoniger-kordofaniannatural languagelanguagecommunicationabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:ChagaChaggaChiMwiniChichewaChishonaFangGikuyuGiriamaHereroKambaKichagaKinyarwandaKiswahiliKongoLuGandaLubaLuyiaMashiMweraNguniNyamweziPokomoShonaSothoSwahiliTongaTshilubaUmbundu
Full Hyponyms:chichewachimwinichishonafanggikuyugiriamahererokambakichagakinyarwandakiswahilikongolubalugandaluyiamashimwerandebelenguninyamwezipokomosesothoshonasothoswahiliswazitongatswanaumbunduxhosazulu
adjadj.pertof or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their cultureExamples:- the Bantu population of Sierra Leone
Derivationally Related Form:Bantu
Pertainyms:Bantu
Inherited Hypernyms:bantu