Hottentot Definition

hŏtn-tŏt
hottentots
noun
A Khoikhoi person.
American Heritage
The Khoisan language of this people.
Webster's New World
A member of a nomadic pastoral people of SW Africa.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
pronoun
The language of the Khoi, remarkable for its clicks.
Wiktionary

(archaic or offensive) A member of the Khoekhoe group of peoples.

Wiktionary

Any of several fish of the genus Pachymetopon, in the family Sparidae.

Wiktionary
adjective
Of the Hottentots or their language or culture.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Hottentot

Noun

Singular:
Hottentot
Plural:
hottentots

Origin of Hottentot

  • From Dutch variously ascribed to mean stutterer; and from hot en tot being an approximation of common sounds in the Khoi language. First known use 1677 (in Dutch).

    From Wiktionary

  • Afrikaans

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

Hottentot Sentence Examples

  • He came to England in 1836, in company with a Kaffir convert and a Hottentot convert, and aroused public opinion against the Cape government.

  • Two days after the signature of the deed Retief and all of his party, 66 whites, besides Hottentot servants, were treacherously murdered by Dingaan's orders.

  • Chesterfield's " respectable Hottentot," now identified with George, Lord Lyttelton, was long supposed, though on slender grounds, to be a portrait of Johnson.

  • The western region, both plateau and coastlands, specially that part north of the Orange, is largely semi or wholly desert, while in the Cape province the terrace lands below the interior plateau are likewise arid, as is signified by their Hottentot name karusa (Karroo).

  • The great majority of the coloured inhabitants are Bantus of pure blood, but the total coloured population includes in the Cape province 298,334 persons of mixed blood (chiefly white and Hottentot) and in Natal 100,918 Asiatics.

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Words Starting With

HHOHOT

Words Ending With

TOTTOT

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Hottentot

Words Starting With H and Ending With T

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With H9 Letter Words Ending With T