hottentot

What does hottentot mean?

hottentot means "any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa".

How many syllables are in hottentot?

hottentot has 3 syllables and divides as hot-ten-tot under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hottentot?

Close synonyms include Khoikhoin, Khoikhoi. 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 hottentot a common word?

hottentot 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hottentot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.