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Zimbabwean

  1. person from or inhabitant of Zimbabwe
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  1. of, from, or pertaining to Zimbabwe
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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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.