bantu

1. 1.

   of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture

   “the Bantu population of Sierra Leone”

Other forms of bantu

plural

bantus·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bantu

What does bantu mean?

bantu means "a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bantu?

bantu has 2 syllables: ban-tu. The stress falls on "ban". In IPA it is /ˈbæntu/.

What is another word for bantu?

Close synonyms include Bantoid language. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bantu a common word?

bantu is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.