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NILOTIC

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group

Synonyms:

Nilotic; Nilotic language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Nilotic" is a kind of...):

Chari-Nile (a group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Nilotic"):

Dinka; Luo; Masai (a Nilotic language)

Derivation:

Nilotic (of or relating to or constituting the Nilotic group of languages)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or constituting the Nilotic group of languages

Example:

Nilotic syntax

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Nilotic (a group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group)

Derivation:

Nilotic (a group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to the Nile River or the people living near it

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Nile (the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization)

Derivation:

Nile (the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization)

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