zimbabwean
/zɪmˈbɑːb.wi.ən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, from, or pertaining to Zimbabwe or the Zimbabwean people.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "‘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."
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 Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Zimbabwean From Zimbabwe + -an.