Bechuana
Americannoun
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Bechuanas,
plural
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Bechuana
plural
noun
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a former name for Tswana
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a former name for a member of the Bantu people of Botswana
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Bechuana
First recorded in 1795–1805
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When independence finally comes, Seretse expects to rename his country Bechuana and set about the enormous tasks ahead.
From Time Magazine Archive
“One event is always the son of another, and we must never forget the parentage,” said a Bechuana chief to Casalis the missionary.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
A favourable answer had been brought back from the Bechuana chief.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams
The Bechuana was accordingly summoned, and he at once expressed his readiness to gratify George’s curiosity.
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams
The descendants of the ancient Bechuana tribes at one time possessed enormous herds of the large horned animals; when despoiled of these, they were driven into the desert, which thus by compulsion became their home.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam
Indeed, some 30,000 Bechuanas depend on employment in the South African gold fields for a livelihood.
From Time Magazine Archive
He prays every day in the big hut to his Spirits, and many of the Bechuanas pray with him, but not Kobo.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams
A day or two afterwards, when danger of pursuit was over, Darrell was enlisted as one of Black Jamie’s troop in the service of Mankoran, the chief of the Bechuanas.
From Luck at the Diamond Fields by Dalrymple J. Belgrave
For the sake of procuring three or four antelopes for food, with the least trouble, the Bechuanas had destroyed a whole herd.
From The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid
We met your messenger returning from his errand to the Bechuanas, and learned that the quarrel had been made up.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams
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