Bushman Definition

bo͝oshmən
bushmen
noun
A person who lives in the Australian bush.
Webster's New World
A backwoodsman.
Webster's New World
A member of a nomadic people living in the region of the Kalahari Desert in S Africa.
Webster's New World
The Khoisan language of this people.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Bushman

Noun

Singular:
Bushman
Plural:
bushmen

Origin of Bushman

  • Translation of Afrikaans boschjeman boschje bush man man

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From bush +‎ man.

    From Wiktionary

Bushman Sentence Examples

  • Here it bends south again, and with many a zigzag continues its general westerly direction, crossing the arid plains of Bechuana, Bushman and Namaqualands.

  • Upon the surface is coloring; red for the Bushman, with black whisker though female; white for the European type, with black tattoo patterns.

  • The colonists also, pressing forward to those territories, came in contact with these Ishmaelites - the farmers' cattle and sheep, guarded only by a Hottentot herdsman, offering the strongest temptation to the Bushman.

  • As an example we may take the instance of Qing, the Bushman hunter.

  • The Bushman who saw the Wind meant to throw a stone at it, but it ran into a hill.

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Words Starting With

BBUBUS

Words Ending With

NANMAN

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Bushman

Words Starting With B and Ending With N

Starts With B & Ends With NStarts With BU & Ends With NStarts With B & Ends With AN

Word Length

7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With B7 Letter Words Ending With N