/ban"tooh/ , n. , pl. Bantus , ( esp. collectively ) Bantu , adj.
n.
1. a member of any of several Negroid peoples forming a linguistically and in some respects culturally interrelated family in central and southern Africa.
2. a grouping of more than 500 languages of central and southern Africa, as Kikuyu, Swahili, Tswana, and Zulu, all related within a subbranch of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family.
adj.
3. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bantu or the Bantu peoples.