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Ologuns

Ologuns is the plural of Ologun.

Meaning of Ologun

Noun

Ologun (plural Ologuns or Ologun)

  1. A member of the social class of warrior chiefs in Yoruba society.
    • The real rulers of the town and its dependencies were the war chiefs, the Ologun, overshadowing the Ogboni1988, Robert Sydney Smith, Kingdoms of the Yoruba, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 128
  2. (countable) A Yoruba warrior chief.
    • Why the Ologuns decided to observe this tradition had beaten his imagination. The distance between Ibadan and Abeokuta ought to constitute enough check on them.1982, Jide Oguntoye, Too cold for comfort

Questions about Ologuns

What is Ologuns the plural of?
Ologuns is the plural of Ologun.

Words near Ologuns in the dictionary

  1. ologamasids
  2. ologies
  3. ologist
  4. ologists
  5. Ologun
  6. Ologuns
  7. ology
  8. oloid
  9. oloids
  10. ololiuhqui
  11. ololiuqui

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