NUER

Meaning of NUER in English

/nooh"euhr/ , n. , pl. Nuers , ( esp. collectively ) Nuer for 1.

1. a member of a tribal people who live along the Nile in southern Sudan and subsist chiefly by raising cattle.

2. the Nilotic language of the Nuer people.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

NUER — noun (plural ~) Etymology: probably ultimately from ~ naað, a self-designation Date: 1861 a member of a Nilotic people of …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
NUER — People of the marsh and savanna living on both banks of the Nile River in southern Sudan. They speak an …
Английский словарь Британика
NUER — ˈnüə(r) noun ( plural nuer or nuers ) Usage: usually capitalized 1. a. : a numerous and widespread Nilotic people …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
NUER — noun ( plural Nuer ) Etymology: probably ultimately from Nuer naað, a self-designation Date: 1861 1. : a member of …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
NUER — [ 'nu:ə ] ■ noun ( plural same or ~s ) 1》 a member of an African people of SE …
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NUER — people who live in the marshy and savanna country on both banks of the Nile River in the southern Sudan. …
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NUER — n. People of the marsh and savanna living on both banks of the Nile River in southern Sudan. They speak …
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NUER — Нуэр
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NUER — n. Pronunciation: ' nü- ə r Function: noun Inflected Form: plural Nuer Etymology: probably ultimately from Nuer naa ð , …
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NUANCE — noun Etymology: French, from Middle French, shade of color, from nuer to make shades of color, from nue cloud, from …
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SUDAN, THE — officially Republic of the Sudan Country, North Africa. Area: 966,757 sq mi (2,503,890 sq km). Population (2002 est.): 37,090,000. Capital: …
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NILOT — plural Nilotes Any member of a cluster of east-central African peoples living in southern Sudan, northern Uganda, and western Kenya. …
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NILO-SAHARAN LANGUAGES — Group of perhaps 115 African languages spoken by more than 27 million people from Mali to Ethiopia and from southernmost …
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EVANS-PRITCHARD, SIR E(DWARD) E(VAN) — born Sept. 21, 1902, Crowborough, Sussex, Eng. died Sept. 11, 1973, Oxford, Oxfordshire British social anthropologist. The most influential British …
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DINKA — Cattle-herding people of the Nile basin in southern Sudan. They speak an eastern Sudanic language of the Nuer . Numbering …
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AGE SET — Formally organized social group consisting of every male (or female) of comparable age. In societies where the practice traditionally occurs …
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NUANCE — I. ˈn(y)üˌän(t)s, ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ also -äⁿs sometimes ˈn(y)üən- noun ( -s ) Etymology: French, from Middle French, shade of color, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
NILOTIC — I. (ˈ)nī|läd.]ik, -ät], ]ēk\ adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Latin niloticus of the Nile, from nilotis, feminine adjective (from Greek …
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LEOPARD-SKIN CHIEF — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷- noun : a mediator or arbitrator who settles disputes and feuds among the Nuer
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NUANCE — noun Etymology: French, from Middle French, shade of color, from nuer to make shades of color, from nue cloud, from …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
NUANCE — [nu.ance] n [F, fr. MF, shade of color, fr. nuer to make shades of color, fr. nue cloud, fr. L …
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TOTEMISM
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SACRIFICE — a religious rite in which an object is offered to a divinity in order to establish, maintain, or restore a …
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RITUAL — the performance of ceremonial acts prescribed by tradition or by sacerdotal decree. Ritual is a specific, observable mode of behaviour …
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PRIMITIVE CULTURE — in the lexicon of early anthropologists, any of numerous societies characterized by features that may include lack of a written …
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KINSHIP
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FEUD — also called blood feud a continuing state of conflict between two groups within a society (typically kinship groups) characterized by …
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AGE SET — a formally organized group consisting of every male (or female) of comparable age. In those societies chiefly identified with the …
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NILOTIC LANGUAGES — group of related languages spoken in Uganda, Kenya, southern Sudan, and northern Tanzania. These languages are usually classified as belonging …
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NILOT — plural Nilotes, any member of several east-central African peoples living in southern Sudan, northern Uganda, and western Kenya. The name …
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NILE RIVER
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EVANS-PRITCHARD, SIR EDWARD — born September 21, 1902, Crowborough, Sussex, Eng. died September 11, 1973, Oxford, Oxfordshire in full Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard one …
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