MENDE

Meaning of MENDE in English

[Men.de] n, pl mende or mendes (1732) 1: a Mande language of southern Sierra Leone and eastern Liberia

2: a member of a people speaking Mende

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MENDE — noun (plural ~ or ~s) Date: 1732 a Mande language of southern Sierra Leone and eastern Liberia, a member of …
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MENDE — ˈmendē noun ( plural mende or mendes ) Usage: usually capitalized 1. a. : a politically important people of Mandingo …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MENDE — /men"dee/ , n. , pl. Mendes , ( esp. collectively ) Mende for 1. 1. a member of a people …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MENDE — noun ( plural Mende or Mendes ) Date: 1732 1. : a Mande language of southern Sierra Leone and eastern …
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MENDE — [ 'mɛndi ] ■ noun ( plural same) 1》 a member of a people inhabiting Sierra Leone in West Africa. …
Concise Oxford English vocab
MENDE — people of Sierra Leone, including also a small group in Liberia; they speak a language of the Mande branch of …
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MENDE — Mende BrE AmE ˈmend eɪ
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
MENDE — n. Pronunciation: ' men-d ē , -d ā Function: noun Inflected Form: plural Mende or Mendes Date: 1732 1 : …
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SIERRA LEONE — officially Republic of Sierra Leone Country, western Africa. Area: 27,699 sq mi (71,740 sq km). Population (2002 est.): 4,823,000. Capital: …
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MANDE LANGUAGES — Branch of the Mande comprises 40 languages of West Africa with more than 20 million speakers in a more or …
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FREETOWN — Capital (pop., 1999 est.: metro. area: 822,000) and largest city of Sierra Leone. Located at the mouth of the Sierra …
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GOOFER — I. goof·er ˈgüfə(r) noun ( -s ) Etymology: goof (I) + -er : goof had a considerable understanding of goofers …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BUMBO — I. ˈbəm(ˌ)bō noun also bom·bo ˈbäm- ( -s ) Etymology: perhaps from Italian (baby-talk) bombo drink, of imitative origin : …
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SANDE — ˈsän(ˌ)dā noun ( -s ) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Mende sāne 1 : a Liberia and Sierra Leone secret custom …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
POOLI — ˈpülē noun ( -s ) Etymology: Mende puli, a species of Bauhinia 1. : a tropical African timber tree ( …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MANDE — ˈmän(ˌ)dā noun ( plural mande also mandes ) Usage: usually capitalized 1. : mandingo 1, 2 2. : a branch …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CALINUT — ˈkalēˌnət noun ( -s ) Etymology: of African origin; akin to Mende kale seed, stone of a fruit, Bambara, a …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MANDE — /mahn"day/ , n. 1. a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, spoken in western Africa and including Mende, Malinke, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
LOZÈRE — /law zerdd"/ , n. a department in S France. 74,825; 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km). Cap.: Mende.
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TOPI — ~ 1 [ 'təʊpi ] (also topee ) ■ noun ( plural ~s or topees ) short for sola ~ …
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STATISTICS: SIERRA LEONE
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SIERRA LEONE, FLAG OF — horizontally striped green-white-blue national flag. Its width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3. Sierra Leone, which was founded in the late …
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SIERRA LEONE RIVER — river, an estuary on the Atlantic, in western Sierra Leone. Formed by Port Loko Creek and the Rokel River, it …
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SIERRA LEONE — officially Republic of Sierra Leone republic of western Africa. Facing the Atlantic Ocean to the west with a coast 210 …
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PAEONIUS — flourished 450, 400 BC Nike, marble statue by Paeonius, c. 420 BC. In the Archaeological Museum, Greek sculptor, native of …
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MANDE LANGUAGES — a branch of the Niger-Congo language family comprising 40 languages spoken by some 20 million people in a more or …
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LOZERE — dpartement, Languedoc-Roussillon rgion, southern France, in the southeastern part of the Massif Central astride the Atlantic-Mediterranean watershed. One of the …
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LOT RIVER — river, rising in the Cvennes mountains, near Mont Lozre, in Lozre dpartement, southern France, flowing about 300 mi (480 km) …
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LIBERIA, FLAG OF — horizontally striped national flag with six red stripes and five white stripes and a blue canton bearing a white star. …
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GULLAH — creole language based on English, spoken by former black slaves and their descendants (also called Gullahs and Geechees, West African …
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SIERRA LEONE — officially Republic of Sierra Leone Country, western Africa. Area: 27,699 sq mi (71,740 sq km). Population (2002 est.): 4,823,000. Capital: …
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