Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Bantu language spoken in Malawi and neighboring areas.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of an
African people inhabiting centralMalawi and adjoining areas ofZambia andMozambique . - proper noun The
Chichewa language. - adjective Of or relating to the Chewa or their language.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the Bantu-speaking people of Malawi and eastern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe
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Examples
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The Chewa adage Osauka satopa "a poor person never tires" is certainly true in the case of Priscilla Choma.
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Makhole says the Chewa should renounce their traditional beliefs and join Christianity, rather than mixing the two.
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In Malawi, the first president, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, was a Chewa.
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We perform Gule wankulu when we want to install a Chewa chief, during the death of a chief, even at times when the chief commemorates something special that happened in his village, says Gonthi.
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The Chewa ethnic group is found in some parts of Mozambique and Zambia, as well as in Malawi.
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To start with, he has not taken advantage of his Swahili and Chewa lyrics and the Benga sounds of his music to make inroads in Central Africa.
Simon Chimbetu 2005
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English, Ndebele and Chewa and not many Zimbabwean musicians go that far.
Simon Chimbetu 2005
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Chimbetu could take advantage of his Chewa songs as a staring point to
Simon Chimbetu 2005
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Expansion of Maravi state system in Chewa-speaking area of the Shire Valley.
f. Southern Africa 2001
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The country's notes and coins in the Malawian currency, the kwacha (meaning dawn in Chewa language), have featured the head of the now 97-year-old ex-president-for-life Kamuzu Banda for the last
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