Meaning

2 senses
  1. A person who lives in the bush, especially a member of a community or ethnic group who lives in the bush.

    Buschmann

  2. (offensive, sometimes)A member of one of the foraging ethnic groups native to southwestern Africa, mostly the Kalahari.

More definitions
  • nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa
  • a male dweller in the Australian bush country

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Craig remembered seeing indigenous San bushmen ply their tracking skills in southern Africa’s Central Kalahari Desert 20 years earlier.

Translations

5 languages
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By meaning 1
Bushman:

Forms

plural: Bushmen
SingularBushman
PluralBushmen

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Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa:Khoisan

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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