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impala

[ im-pal-uh, -pah-luh ]

noun

, plural im·pal·as, (especially collectively) im·pal·a.
  1. an African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, the male of which has ringed, lyre-shaped horns.


impala

/ ɪmˈpɑːlə /

noun

  1. an antelope, Aepyceros melampus, of southern and eastern Africa, having lyre-shaped horns and able to move with enormous leaps when disturbed


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Word History and Origins

Origin of impala1

1870–75; < Zulu, or a cognate word in another Nguni dial.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of impala1

from Zulu

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Example Sentences

His New Year’s night becomes interesting after Deborah Ibaneza, an alluring impala, hires him to look into a job for her employer, Natasha Catzenko, a nightclub owner.

Paper clips, cutting boards, and a Chevy Impala are just a few of the items that rain down from above in this dystopian novel.

A guy in a classic Chevy Impala stops to high-five people passing him.

Two months later, after Raymond had been released, Coy bought his wife a new Chevrolet Impala.

But that which lay in her hand was a flat bag, made of the dressed skin of an impala.

It was an impala, a species of antelope, and was evidently in the last stage of exhaustion.

Two African hunting dogs were pursuing the impala and were gaining rapidly.

There we had nobler game to follow—wildebeest and hartebeest, impala, and now and then a koodoo.

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