Zimbabwean
- person from or inhabitant of Zimbabwe
- of, from, or pertaining to Zimbabwe
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /zɪmˈbɑːb.wi.ən/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *mbá Shona imbá Proto-Bantu *ìbʊ̀è Shona ibwe Shona dzimba-dze-mabweder. English Zimbabwe Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Zimbabwean From Zimbabwe + -an.
- Of, from, or pertaining to Zimbabwe or the Zimbabwean people.
“‘Oh Dick! You’re a poet, although you don’t know it!’ Belinda, with that annoying Zimbabwean habit of repeating clichés as though they were a novel observation, made her way towards Dick bearing a gin and tonic.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *mbá Shona imbá Proto-Bantu *ìbʊ̀è Shona ibwe Shona dzimba-dze-mabweder. English Zimbabwe Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Zimbabwean From Zimbabwe + -an.
- A person from Zimbabwe or of Zimbabwean descent.
“We were, practically to a person, young Zimbabweans who had no parental backing but who had acquired the means through some sort of tenacity, however dubious, to lodge at the respectable hostel.”