Meaning of BUSHMAN
| Pronunciation: | | 'bûshmun
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- [n] a dweller in the Australian bush country
- [n] a member of the race of nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa
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| | Definition: | | \Bush"man\, n.; pl. {Bushmen}. [Cf. D. boschman,
boschjesman. See 1st {Bush}.]
1. A woodsman; a settler in the bush.
2. (Ethnol.) One of a race of South African nomads, living
principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied
in race or language to any other people.
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| | Related Terms: | | aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, antediluvian, anthropoid, ape-man, autochthon, backwoodsman, briar-hopper, Bronze Age man, brush ape, cave dweller, caveman, clam digger, cracker, desert rat, forester, fossil man, frontiersman, hillbilly, hinterlander, hominid, Hominidae, humanoid, Iron Age man, man of old, missing link, mountain man, mountaineer, piny, preadamite, prehistoric man, prehuman, primate, primitive, protohuman, redneck, ridge runner, Stone Age man, troglodyte, woodlander, woodman, woodsman |
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