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单词 twa
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Twan.adj.

Brit. /twɑː/, U.S. /twɑ/
Forms: Also (plural) Abatwa, Batwa, Watwa.
Etymology: < Bantu twa foreigner, outsider, originally applied by Bantu people to Bushmen, pygmies, and others.
(A member of) a pygmy people inhabiting parts of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Also attributive or as adj.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [noun]
Numidian?a1425
Nubianc1450
Massylian1606
catadupes1607
Mauritanian1607
Marmarican1627
Niam-Niam1861
Watusi1863
Zande1873
Twa1878
Tutsi1929
Cyrenaican1942
Ubangi1953
Chadian1960
Saharan1970
Sahrawi1976
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [adjective]
Nubian1600
Somali1809
Meroitic1852
Zande1873
Somalian1884
Ubangi1915
Twa1951
Chadian1960
Watusi1960
1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. xvii. 470 There is a race of dwarfs somewhere west of Mkinyaga called Mpundu, and another called the Batwa or Watwa.
1907 Rep. 76th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1906 689 [The San] are called Baroa by the Basuto, Abatwa by the Kafirs, San by themselves.
1920 E. W. Smith & A. M. Dale Ila-Speaking Peoples N. Rhodesia p. xxvi Along the Kafue are the river people, the Batwa. Their name is widely found in Africa: the Bushmen in the south are called Abatwa by the Zulus and Baroa by the Basuto.
1951 E. Colson in E. Colson & M. Gluckman Seven Tribes Brit. Cent. Afr. II. ii. 109 He pays the Twa neighbour only a few sticks of tobacco. The Twa is then expected to tell all later comers that this site is reserved.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 318/1 Examples of Pygmoid groups living in close symbiosis with other peoples are the Twa.
1988 Arena Autumn–Winter 58/2 The Twa, pigmy people who make up just one per cent of the population [of Burundi] and don't cause anyone any fuss.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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TWA
TWA n. U.S. Trans World Airlines (formerly, until 1950, Transcontinental and Western Air).
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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun] > public service airline > specific
Skybus1919
K.L.M.1933
TWA1933
skytrain1971
1933 Meccano Mag. Apr. 270/2 T.W.A. state that most of the transcontinental air mail is carried by their machines.
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vi. 93 They were flying back again via TWA.
1960 Daily Mail 13 Dec. 7/8 A champagne party was laid on for Mr. Steven Mueller, 2,000,000th passenger to leave London in a TWA jet airliner... There was a hitch when Mr. Mueller arrived. He is just two years and four months old. The red carpet treatment went to his mother.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 17 Apr. 20/5 Pressed by banks that had lent TWA millions, he sold his TWA stock for $546,549,171.
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