Bantu
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- Bantu derivation
Sense 2 adjective
of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture
the Bantu population of Sierra Leone
Related & opposite
- Bantoid language derivation
- Bantu derivation
- Bantu pertains to
Sense 3 noun
a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
Types & categories
- Niger-Congo hypernym
- Chichewa hyponym
- ChiMwini hyponym
- Chishona hyponym
- Fang hyponym
- Gikuyu hyponym
- Giriama hyponym
- Herero hyponym
- Kamba hyponym
- Kichaga hyponym
- Kinyarwanda hyponym
- Kiswahili hyponym
- Kongo hyponym
- Tshiluba hyponym
- LuGanda hyponym
- Luyia hyponym
- Mashi hyponym
- Mwera hyponym
- Nguni hyponym
- Nyamwezi hyponym
- Pokomo hyponym
- Shona hyponym
- Sotho hyponym
- Umbundu hyponym
- Swahili hyponym
- Tonga hyponym
Related & opposite
- Bantu derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | Bantu |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | African |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Herero |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Hutu |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Luba |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Sotho |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Tswana |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Tutsi |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Shona |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | Bantoid language |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | Bantu |
| 2 | pertains to | Related & opposite | Bantu |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | Bantu |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | Niger-Congo |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Chichewa |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | ChiMwini |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Chishona |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Fang |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Gikuyu |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Giriama |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Herero |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Kamba |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Kichaga |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Kinyarwanda |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Kiswahili |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Kongo |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Tshiluba |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | LuGanda |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Luyia |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Mashi |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Mwera |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Nguni |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Nyamwezi |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Pokomo |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Shona |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Sotho |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Umbundu |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Swahili |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Tonga |