单词 | indaba |
释义 | indaban. Originally: a Zulu or Xhosa tribal gathering, consultation, or council meeting; (later also) (South African) any conference, meeting, or discussion. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > a conference > particular types of parliament?a1400 diet1471 symposiac1603 by-conference1625 guestling1629 sanhedrim1653 comitia1684 symposium1784 assembly1794 powwow1812 neighbourhood meeting1823 colloquium1861 congress1861 party conference1875 indaba1894 press conference1908 case conference1913 story conference1920 telemeeting1973 poster session1974 START1981 presser1988 1894 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Dec. 3/2 A message was therefore conveyed..to the King, inviting Umtassa to come in to an indaba at Umtali. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 30 Mar. 5/1 They will then attack Gimgem's kraal, where the chief Ulimo is holding an indaba, or consultation. 1896 Daily News 31 Aug. 3/1 The Indunas, after the final indaba, returned to the hills with the professed intention of consulting their brethren. 1920 R. Y. Stormberg Mrs Pieter de Bruyn 63 We're having a last little indaba all together, and then Gwenno Cape-carts it back home. 1940 F. B. Young City of Gold 355 He saw, as a culmination of the British surrender, the indaba of native chiefs, to whom the High Commissioner..presented the Boer triumvirate as their new leaders. 1989 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 12 Nov. 28 Mme Danielle Mitterand, whose invitations to an indaba in Paris fluttered through selected South African mailboxes this week. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1894 |
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