Bushmen

[boosh-muhn]

bush·man

[boosh-muhn]
noun, plural bush·men.
1.
a woodsman.
2.
Australian. a pioneer; dweller in the bush.
3.
(initial capital letter) San.

Origin:
1775–85; bush1 + man1, modeled on Afrikaans boschjesman literally, man of the bush
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Bushmen is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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Bushmen definition


The nomadic hunting and gathering peoples of the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, in Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. (See hunting and gathering societies and nomadism.)

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