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ZULU
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Zulu" is a kind of...):
Nguni (a group of southern Bantu languages)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A community of Negroid people in eastern South Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Instance hypernyms:
community (a group of people living in a particular local area)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A member of the tall Negroid people of eastern South Africa; some live in KwaZulu-Natal under the traditional clan system but many now work in the cities
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Zulu" is a kind of...):
African (a native or inhabitant of Africa)
Holonyms ("Zulu" is a member of...):
KwaZulu-Natal; Natal (a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean)