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griots

griots is the plural of griot.

Meaning of griot

Noun (1)

griot (plural griots)

  1. A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.
    • Griots may be the chroniclers of an important family or of a group of people — like the Bambara hunters’ griot — or itinerant poets and musicians who extol the praises of the person who has hired them for a special festivity.1995, Françoise Pfaff, “Sembene, A Griot of Modern Times”, in Michael T. Martin, editor, Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality, page 118

Noun (2)

griot (countable and uncountable, plural griots)

  1. A Haitian dish of fried pork.

Questions about griots

What is griots the plural of?
Griots is the plural of griot.

Words near griots in the dictionary

  1. Grinăuți
  2. Grinăuți-Moldova
  3. Grințieș
  4. griot
  5. griotic
  6. griots
  7. griotte
  8. griottes
  9. grip
  10. grip car
  11. grip cars

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