Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bantu

2 senses of bantu

Sense 1
Bantu -- (a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa)
       => African -- (a native or inhabitant of Africa)

Sense 2
Bantu, Bantoid language -- (a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent)
       => Niger-Congo -- (a family of African language spoken in west Africa)

Similarity of adj bantu

1 sense of bantu

Sense 1
Bantu -- (of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture; "the Bantu population of Sierra Leone")