Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a people inhabiting southeast Nigeria.
- noun The Benue-Congo language of the Igbo.
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- proper noun A people of southeast
Nigeria . - proper noun The language spoken by the Igbo people and elsewhere in southern Nigeria.
- noun A member of the Igbo people.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the largest ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria
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Examples
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For example, in Igbo, you call your older brother (and I think sister) Dede or Dede + Brother's name.
"I am Aunty Mary" 2009
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Enyi = jigong at Lofthall, fired by Halling (name means friend in Igbo)
SKENE CAST OF CHARACTERS Maggie Jochild 2004
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Enyi = jigong at Lofthall, fired by Halling (name means friend in Igbo)
Archive 2004-12-12 Maggie Jochild 2004
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The Yoruba and the Igbo are the domineering languages of the South, but it is quite difficult for the people of the South-South geopolitical zone to accept inferiority under any of the duo.
Thisday Online 2010
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"Most men are sending their wives and their wares home," said Leonard Nwosu, president of a Kano community association that claims to represent three million Igbo people, largely Christian store owners in the city.
New Attacks Threaten Nigeria's Future Drew Hinshaw 2012
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Nigerians are not Xhosa; Nigerians speak Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Kanuri and English, among others.
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Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, which in the past few years has captured the imagination of many Igbo people.
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FWIW, its the Igbo people in Nigeria and the Ga people in Ghana that celebrate this.
Should you be bothered that Pres. Obama bowed to the Japanese emperor? « Dating Jesus 2009
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The (brave enough) Igbo talk about it and the non-Igbo think the Igbo should get over it.
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English, but that our education devalues our culture, that we are not taught to write Igbo and that middle-class parents dont much care that their children do not speak Igbo.
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