Noun
- 1. Bantu, African
- usage: a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
- 2. Bantu, Bantoid language, Niger-Congo
- usage: a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
Adjective
- 1. Bantu
- usage: of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture; "the Bantu population of Sierra Leone"
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