Ashanti

[ uh-shan-tee, uh-shahn- ]

noun

, plural A·shan·tis, (especially collectively) A·shan·ti

1. a former native kingdom and British colony in western Africa: now a region of Ghana. 9,700 sq. mi. (25,123 sq. km). : Kumasi.
2. a native or inhabitant of Ashanti.
3. the dialect of Akan spoken by the people of Ashanti.

Ashanti

/ əˈʃæntɪ /

noun

1. an administrative region of central Ghana: former native kingdom, suppressed by the British in 1900 after four wars. Capital: Kumasi. Pop: 3 187 607 (2000). Area: 24 390 sq km (9417 sq miles)
2. -ti-tis a native or inhabitant of Ashanti

Example Sentences

The Fanti, Ashanti, and Boroom forms of speech are merely dialects of one and the same language.

From Project Gutenberg

Punch's pacific dreams were dispelled in the autumn by the renewed troubles in Ashanti.

From Project Gutenberg

I remember now—you're the man that ran the still in the Ashanti country, and got away with the concession.

From Project Gutenberg

The bowl was fully described by Bowdich in his account of Ashanti in 1817.

From Project Gutenberg

In all his long pilgrimage Livingstone saw scarcely a trace of the brutal rites and bloody superstitions of Dahomey and Ashanti.

From Project Gutenberg