BUSHMEN

Definition: BUSHMEN

BUSHMEN

Plural

1. Of Bushman

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BUSHMEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Crosswords: BUSHMEN

Books

• Bushmen of Southern Africa: Slaughter of the Innocent (reference)

• Kalahari Bushmen (Threatened Cultures) (reference)

• Specimens of Bushmen Folklore (reference)

• The Bushmen (reference)

• The Bushmen of South Africa (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Sanscapes One: Bushmen of Kalahari [REMIXES INCLUDED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Somewhere in Central Africa. Here, at length, is the witch doctor and his USA airplane, the P-40 or "steam-chicken" as the bushmen call it. Civilization advances into the inner sanctums of the medicine men, and penetrates the Dark Continent, which for hun. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Children

Botswana

Government estimates of the proportion of children who never attend school have ranged from 10 to 17 percent, and fewer than 20 percent of children complete secondary school; school attendance and completion rates are highest in urban areas, and lowest in remote rural areas, especially those inhabited chiefly by Basarwa (San or Bushmen). (references)

Economic History

Namibia

Bushmen (or San) are generally assumed to have been the earliest inhabitants of the region. (references)

Lesotho

Basutoland (now Lesotho--pronounced le-SOO-too) was sparsely populated by San bushmen (Qhuaique) until the end of the 16th century. (references)

Indigenous People

Namibia

The Bushmen, also known as the San people, the country's earliest known inhabitants, historically have been exploited by other ethnic groups. (references)

Namibia

However, Bushmen and other indigenous citizens have been unable to exercise fully these rights as a result of minimal access to education, limited economic opportunities under colonial rule, and their relative isolation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Hungarian

busman (bushman), isten háta mögött lakó ember (bushman), őserdei lakos (bushman). (various references)

Pig Latin

ushmenbay

Derivations

Words containing "BUSHMEN": ambushment, ambushments. (additional references)

Misspellings

"BUSHMEN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bashen, Bishma, Boschmann, Buchmann, Buschmann, Bushenyi, Cushman. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: busmen, unmesh.

-2 letters: menus, neums, numbs, sebum.

-3 letters: bens, bums, buns, bush, emus, hems, hens, hubs, hues, hums, huns, menu, mesh, muns, muse, mush, nebs, neum, nubs, numb, shun, snub, unbe.

-4 letters: ben, bum, bun, bus, ems, emu, ens, hem, hen, hes, hub, hue, hum, hun, men, mun, mus, neb, nub, nus, sen, she.

+3 letters: ambushment, humbleness, husbandmen, numbfishes.

+4 letters: ambushments, unblemished.

+5 letters: debouchments, humblenesses.

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