HERERO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Herero mean? 

• HERERO (noun)
  The noun HERERO has 2 senses:

1. a member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola

2. a Banto language spoken by the Herero in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola

  Familiarity information: HERERO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HERERO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Herero" is a kind of...):

Bantu (a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa)

Holonyms ("Herero" is a member of...):

Namibia; Republic of Namibia; South West Africa (a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa)

Angola; Republic of Angola (a republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975 and was the scene of civil war until 1990)

Botswana; Republic of Botswana (a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Banto language spoken by the Herero in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Herero" is a kind of...):

Bantoid language; Bantu (a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent)