Berber
noun
a member of a group of North African tribes living in Barbary and the Sahara.
Berbers
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pluralof Berber.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Morocco has a substantial population of Berbers, or Amazigh as they prefer to be called - some estimates put it at nearly 40% of the country's population of more than 34 million.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2022
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune tweeted that the soldiers saved 100 citizens from the blazes in two areas in the mountainous Kabylie region, home of the Berbers.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2021
Interior Minister Kamel Beldjoud traveled to Kabyle, home of Berbers, to assess the situation.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2021
Ms. Elkayam said she wept the first time she heard the aching, mesmerizing voices of those long-ago Amazighs — often called Berbers, a term some consider derogatory.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2021
We had, it is true, a stirring outset with Tārik and his Berbers, whose brilliant conquests are no more legendary than is the history of the nineteenth century.
From The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole
