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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   a member of the largest ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria wordnet

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A member of a people of southeast Nigeria.
2. 2
   The language spoken by the Igbo people and elsewhere in southern Nigeria.

   "Surprised by her switch to Igbo, he did not speak."

Example

More examples

"He is a self-professed linguaphile who speaks Serbian, English, German, Igbo, and French."

Etymology

From Igbo Ìgbò.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.