Mende
Americannoun
plural
Mendes,plural
Mende-
a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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a Niger-Congo language of the Mande branch spoken by the Mende people.
Example Sentences
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When Mende, mother of two, tosses herself into the Yaselda River after her husband runs off to Minsk, her sister, Fanny, decides that enough is enough: She will track down the good-for-nothing man herself.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2021
Some are beautiful, if obscure, like the Mende mask from Sierra Leone, and the white oak plate and vessel from 20th century Ukraine, crockery made from a tree sacred to Ukrainians.
From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2020
Scientists found links to the Mende people of Sierra Leone, Yoruba as well as Esan people in Nigeria, plus other groups in western areas of The Gambia.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2020
Two men, a white South African mercenary and a black Mende fisherman, join in a common quest to recover a rare gem that could change their lives.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2019
He was Mende and he understood Krio very well.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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