Matabele

[ mat-uh-bee-lee ]

/ ˌmæt əˈbi li /

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noun, plural Mat·a·be·les, (especially collectively) Mat·a·be·le.

Ndebele (def. 1).

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Origin of Matabele

First recorded in 1815–25

Words nearby Matabele

Masuria, Masurian, masurium, Masvingo, mat, Matabele, Matabeleland, Matacil, Matadi, matador, Matagalpa

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How to use Matabele in a sentence

As they advanced they saw evidences on every hand of the terrible Mantatees, and the still more terrible Matabele.
Robert Moffat|David J. Deane
After much persuasion, permission was given him to preach the Gospel to the Matabele people, a privilege hitherto always denied.
Robert Moffat|David J. Deane
At Sechele's town the two portions of this latter division were united, and thence they journeyed onwards towards the Matabele.
Robert Moffat|David J. Deane
He has lived, he tells me, eighteen years in South Africa and fought for us against the Matabele.
Servants of the Guns|Jeffery E. Jeffery

In the fort they showed with pride some half a dozen Matabele prisoners they had captured in a fight.
The Matabele Campaign|R. S. S. Baden-Powell

British Dictionary definitions for Matabele

Matabele

/ (ˌmætəˈbiːlɪ, -ˈbɛlɪ) /

noun

plural -les or -le a member of a formerly warlike people of southern Africa, now living in Zimbabwe: driven out of the Transvaal by the Boers in 1837Now known as: Ndebele

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

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