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Yorùbáland

Yorùbáland is the alternative spelling of Yorubaland.

Meaning of Yorubaland

Proper noun

Yorubaland

  1. The homeland of the Yoruba people in the countries of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo in West Africa.
    • The bold little ships even broke through the Gates of Hercules to the open ocean, coasting then northward to take the gold of Ireland and the tin of Cornwall, as well as southward, around the bulge of Senegal, to remote Yorubaland and the distant marts of ivory, gold, and slaves.1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 14

Origin of Yorùbáland

From Yorùbá + -land.

Questions about Yorùbáland

What is Yorùbáland the alternative spelling of?
Yorùbáland is the alternative spelling of Yorubaland.

Words near Yorùbáland in the dictionary

  1. Yorubian
  2. Yorubians
  3. Yorubic
  4. Yoruboid
  5. Yorùbá
  6. Yorùbáland
  7. yos
  8. Yosef
  9. yoself
  10. Yoselin
  11. yoselves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yorùbáland (page history and authors); Yorubaland (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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