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BECHUANA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Bechuana" is a kind of...):
Bantu (a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa)
Holonyms ("Bechuana" is a member of...):
Botswana; Republic of Botswana (a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s)
Republic of South Africa; South Africa (a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers))
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