Herero

[huh-rair-oh]

noun, plural He·re·ros, (especially collectively) He·re·ro for 1.

a member of an indigenous people of Namibia, Botswana, and Angola.

the Bantu language of the Herero.

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Historical Examples of herero

And the Herero swears (endless oath) "By my mother's tears!"
Darkwater
W. E. B. Du Bois
After another decade of comparative peace war again broke out and spread from the Hottentots to the Herero.
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She had to lie down once in a while to rest.393 The Herero wear iron which in the dry climate retains luster.
Folkways
William Graham Sumner
The political influence of the Cape spread meantime northward to the land of the Herero (Damara).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7
Various
Concentration camps were established in which some thousands of Herero women and children were cared for.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7
Various

British Dictionary definitions for herero

Herero

noun

plural -ro or -ros a member of a formerly rich cattle-keeping Negroid people of southern Africa, living chiefly in central Namibia

the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family

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