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Shona

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Noun

1. shona

a member of a Bantu tribe living in present-day Zimbabwe

2. shona

a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe

Adjective

3. shona

of or relating to or characteristic of the culture of the Shonas

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Shona

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noun
1. plural -na or -nas
a member of a Sotho people of S central Africa, living chiefly in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
2. 
the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family

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Shona

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n. pl. Shona also Sho·nas
1. A member of a people of Zimbabwe and central Mozambique. The Shona include many subgroups, including the Karanga, Korekore, Manyika, Ndau, and Zezuru.
2. The Bantu language of the Shona.

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