Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Bantu people inhabiting Botswana and western South Africa.
- noun The Sotho language of the Tswana.
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- proper noun A
Bantu people living inBotswana andSouth Africa . - proper noun The
Bantu language of these people;Setswana .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa
- noun the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana
Etymologies
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Examples
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North and South Sotho, the 20 cent coin Tswana, the 10 cent coin
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The Batswana, a term also used to denote all citizens of Botswana, refers to the country's major ethnic group (the "Tswana" in South Africa), which came into the area from South Africa during the Zulu wars of the early 1800s.
unknown title 2009
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The Batswana, a term also used to denote all citizens of Botswana, refers to the country's major ethnic group (the "Tswana" in South Africa), which came into the area from South Africa during the Zulu wars of the early 1800s.
unknown title 2009
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The Batswana, a term also used to denote all citizens of Botswana, refers to the country's major ethnic group (the "Tswana" in South Africa), which came into the area from South Africa during the Zulu wars of the early 1800s.
unknown title 2009
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What an irony that the home of the Bushmen, the Kalahari, means “the great thirst” from the Tswana word Kgala.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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In Empire of Ivory, prior to the Tswana uprising, the English do have a pretty strong hold on part of South Africa through their base at Capetown.
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Martin Legassick, "The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the Missionaries."
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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The workers come from a variety of countries and tribes, and they speak Zulu, Tswana or one of nearly a dozen other tribal languages.
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Note 19: Martin Legassick, "The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana, and the Missionaries, 1780 – 1840: The Politics of a Frontier Zone."
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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There is some rock art of the Khoi-San bushmen who once lived there and the ruined kraals of later Sotho and Tswana cultures.
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