Basuto
Americannoun
plural
Basutos,plural
Basutonoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
However, when Boers attacked Basuto settlements, Moshoeshoe went to war.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Munro went on to learn German in Stuttgart, studied a business course in London and served as a cavalryman in the Basuto War in southern Africa.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2019
This training aircraft is named Basuto after a Spitfire donated by Lesotho The biggest problem has been getting people to engage with the issue.
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2013
Although I didn't realise it at the time, each story is retold in a style that's in keeping with its source country, whether it's Sudanese, Polynesian, Japanese or Basuto.
From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2011
When British Bechuanaland was swept and the pestilence reached the herds of the Basuto, it was felt that the danger was indeed at the door of every owner of cattle in South Africa.
From Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
