1. (

• Bantu

) a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa ;

2. (

• Bantu ,
• Bantoid_language

) a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent ;

1. (

• Bantu

) of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture; "the Bantu population of Sierra Leone" ;