herero

1. 1.

   a member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola

   BroaderBantu

   Part ofNamibiaBotswanaAngola
2. 2.

   a Banto language spoken by the Herero in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola

   BroaderBantu

Other forms of herero

plural

hereroes·

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 herero

What does herero mean?

herero means "a member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in herero?

herero has 3 syllables: he-re-ro. The stress falls on "he".

Is herero a common word?

herero is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.