askari
noun
an African police officer or soldier, especially one serving a colonial administration.
askaris
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pluralof askari.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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All the askaris were on their tea break at the time.
From Newsweek ● Sep. 5, 2013
Tanganyika's President Julius Nyerere took the most direct approach: he announced that both battalions of his Tanganyika Rifles would be disbanded and the aberrant askaris replaced by members of his party's militant Youth Wing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under his command were some 21,000 Savoy Grenadiers, seven legions of askaris* and a reserve of some 70,000 semi-trained labor troops.
From Time Magazine Archive
The three companies of askaris fell in, marched down to the bayou and embarked without fuss or confusion, each group under a non-commissioned officer to the appointed canoe.
From Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle
For the rampart of askaris had become a circle of dead men, expressing with their last gestures a deep desire to be remerged with this rich, dark, ancient earth.
From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman
