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Xhosan

Meaning of "Xhosan" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF XHOSAN

ˈkɔːsən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF XHOSAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Xhosan is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES XHOSAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of Xhosan in the English dictionary

The definition of Xhosan in the dictionary is of or relating to the Xhosa people, or their language.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH XHOSAN

arson · Carson · chairperson · coarsen · Dawson · fasten · hoarsen · Lawson · loosen · Macpherson · Mawson · McPherson · parson · person · Porson · salesperson · spokesperson · Strawson · whoreson · worsen

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE XHOSAN

Xerox · xerus · Xerxes · Xerxes I · Xhosa · xi · Xi Jinping · Xi´an · Xia Gui · Xiamen · Xiang · Xiangtan · Ximenes · Ximenes de Cisneros · Xining · Xinjiang Uygur · Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

WORDS THAT END LIKE XHOSAN

archdiocesan · artisan · Asosan · basan · bipartisan · black-eyed Susan · chitosan · diocesan · Formosan · hexosan · kisan · Nisan · nonpartisan · Parmesan · partisan · pentosan · san · Susan · triclosan · zymosan

Synonyms and antonyms of Xhosan in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Xhosan» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF XHOSAN

Find out the translation of Xhosan to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of Xhosan from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Xhosan» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

Xhosan
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

Xhosan
570 millions of speakers
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English

Xhosan
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

Xhosan
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Xhosan
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Xhosan
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

Xhosan
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

Xhosan
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

Xhosan
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Xhosan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Xhosan
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

Xhosan
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

Xhosan
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Xhosan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Xhosan
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

Xhosan
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

झॉसन
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Xhosan
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

Xhosan
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Xhosan
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Xhosan
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

Xhosan
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Xhosan
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Xhosan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Xhosan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Xhosan
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Xhosan

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «XHOSAN»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of Xhosan
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Xhosan».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Xhosan

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «XHOSAN»

Discover the use of Xhosan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Xhosan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sports and Games of Medieval Cultures
The Bantu-speaking Ngoni drove the Xhosan or (Khoisan) peoples into the Kalahari Desert south of the Savannah. The Xhosan, with their distinctive languages spoken nowhere else on Earth, include the groups called by the Europeans ...
Sally E. D. Wilkins, 2002
2
Environment and Culture
Both urban Xhosan subjects and rural Xhosan subjects placed dolls less directly in the acquaintance condition than in the friend or stranger conditions. Also, in the male-female pairs, the man was usually placed by the Xhosa subjects so that  ...
Irwin Altman, Amos Rapoport, Joachim F. Wohlwill, 1980
3
The Peanut Allergy Epidemic: What's Causing It and How to ...
There was serologic evidence of sensitivity in5%of Xhosan children inCape Town (2007), 2 but with no reported casesof anaphylaxis. S U B S A HAR A NA FRICA Professor Gideon Lack,in a speech (2006), notedin the British Medical ...
Heather Fraser, 2013
4
Postcolonial Readings of Music in World Literature
... no mechanism that joins Xhosan and British cultures, although when he takes up the KwaMashu banjo for his opera it may be seen as an attempt to construct such a bridge. Through the chamber opera, Lurie searches for both a narrative ...
Cameron Fae Bushnell, 2012
5
An Unpredictable Gospel: American Evangelicals and World ...
... sickness and death.9 The few Xhosa who had converted to Christianity before 1866 tended to be outcasts from Xhosan society—political refugees, the disabled , alleged witches, those fleeing violence, or women fleeing abusive husbands.
Jay Riley Case, 2011
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African Perspectives on European Colonialism
... many other such institutions in South Africa, and the graduates of these South African schools were to become very active in the mass religious movements of the Bantu in the 1880s and 1890s. They included Tiyo Soga, the first Xhosan ...
A. Adu Boahen, 2011
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Fields of Fire - an Atlas of Ethnic Conflict (hardback edition)
In the mid-1990s, fierce fighting between Zulus and Xhosan ANC members threatened to derail the democratization process. Although a 'compromise' was established whereby the mainly Zulu Inkarta Freedom Party retained local control over ...
Stuart A. Notholt, 2008
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On Race and Racism in America: Confessions in Philosophy
Suppose, for example, that a South African of mostly Dutch ancestry and a South African of mostly Xhosan ancestry share certain heritable physical characteristics. They are both large, possess curly hair, and share certain other morphological ...
Roy Martinez, 2010
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Shakespeare Survey: Volume 63, Shakespeare's English ...
And it broke across the sounds his Xhosan mouth couldn't make. But for all that, in the stand-off between them, this massively dignified Caliban had history – his, ours – on his side. When Sher's Prospero, grudgingly concluding that 'The rarer ...
Peter Holland, 2010
10
The History of English Spelling
Christopher Upward, George Davidson. Vietnamesen Welsh West Midland ( Middle English); see also Midland West Saxon (Old English) Wiradhuri Wolof Xhosan Yiddish Yuwaaliyaay Zulu Word and Word-Element Index 0 Since Old English, ...
Christopher Upward, George Davidson, 2011

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «XHOSAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Xhosan is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Tähtitenori Rolando Villazón on myös valloittava klovni
Ylimääräisiä kuultiin neljä, joista rytmikkäin oli xhosan-kielinen. Nuori Pumeza Matshikiza on säihkyvä-ääninen, enrginen ja temperamentikas laulajakyky. «Helsingin Sanomat, Nov 14»
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Yle Uutiset Etelä-Afrikassa: Mandela ansaitsi ikuisen unensa
Mandelasta käytetään myös Khulu-nimeä. Se on lyhennys xhosan sanasta uBawomkhulu, isoisä. Dalibhunga-nimen Mandela sai 16-vuotiaana, kun hän läpäisi ... «YLE, Dec 13»
3
'Exit/Exist' Stars the Choreographer Gregory Maqoma
For moments of “Exit/Exist,” you can believe that they — along with other pieces of the Xhosan past — live on in Mr. Maqoma. A version of this review appears in ... «New York Times, Nov 13»
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Theatre review: Mies Julie, Riverside Theatre, London
She is an other-worldly Xhosan ancestor – at once spectral and very solidly and implacably there, as she creates sounds of utterly arresting unearthliness. «The Independent, Mar 13»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Xhosan [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/xhosan>. May 2024 ».
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