Ibo
Americannoun
plural
Ibos,plural
Ibo-
a member of an Indigenous Black people of southeastern Nigeria, renowned as traders and for their art.
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the language of the Ibo, a Kwa language.
noun
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a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in S Nigeria
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the language of this people, belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family: one of the chief literary and cultural languages of S Nigeria
Example Sentences
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That groove went on to inspire much of subsequent reggae, distinctly heard in works by Sugar Minott, Ibo Cooper, Gregory Isaacs and Dennis Brown.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2022
A different video introduced me to Ibo Landing, a legend that 75 Igbo warriors died by mass suicide instead of being enslaved, and another to Yasuke, the first Black samurai.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2021
Ibo is a dance that represents freedom in tribute to the country's status as the world's first black republic, independent since 1804.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2019
Another defendant, Nigerian native Elizabeth Amachaghi, needed an interpreter in her native language, Ibo, to be flown to North Carolina from the West Coast, her attorney said.
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2019
Over the weekend I work on the Ibo slave-ship painting and try to catch up on some homework.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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