Usually means: African ethnic groups sharing languages.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bantu: Merriam-Webster
  2. Bantu: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Bantu: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Bantu: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Bantu: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bantu, bantu: Wordnik
  7. Bantu: Wiktionary
  8. Bantu: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Bantu: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Bantu: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bantu, bantu: Dictionary.com
  12. Bantu: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Bantu (album), Bantu (band), Bantu: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bantu: Rhymezone
  15. bantu: FreeDictionary.org
  16. bantu: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Bantu: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. bantu: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  19. Bantu: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bantu: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bantu (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. bantu: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bantus as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Bantu)

noun:  (countable) A member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language.
noun:  (South Africa, dated, now offensive, ethnic slur) A black South African.
noun:  (uncountable) The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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