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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A Bantu people living in Botswana and South Africa. plural, plural-only
2. 2
   the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana wordnet
3. 3
   a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa wordnet

Proper Noun

1. 1
   The Bantu language of these people; Setswana.

Synonyms

All synonyms

batswanabatswanabechuanasechuanasetswanasetswana

Example

More examples

"You speak Tswana well. Where did you learn it?"

Etymology

From Tswana Tswana, the stem of Motswana/Batswana/Setswana. See Botswana for more.

Related phrases

south africa

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