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Batswana

Batswana is the plural of Motswana.

Meaning of Motswana

Noun

Motswana (plural Batswana)

  1. A member of the Tswana tribe of southern Africa, especially an inhabitant of Botswana; a Botswanan.
    • He said very carefully, ‘Most of the time we Batswana live in the wilderness and loneliness.’1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, page 15

Questions about Batswana

What is Batswana the plural of?
Batswana is the plural of Motswana.

Words near Batswana in the dictionary

  1. batspit
  2. Batsquatch
  3. Batsquatches
  4. batsqueak
  5. batsqueaks
  6. Batswana
  7. batswing
  8. batswings
  9. batswoman
  10. batswomen
  11. Batsy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Batswana (page history and authors); Motswana (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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