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单词 Bushman
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Bushmannoun [ C ]

plural -men uk/-mən/usalso bushman uk/ˈbʊʃ.mən/us/ˈbʊʃ.mən/

sometimes offensive a member of one of the first groups of people to live in southern Africa, especially in the Kalahari desert, who used to live as hunter-gatherers but are now mainly farmers:

The Kalahari Bushmen have lived on this land for millennia.
See also
San

mainly Australian English a person who lives in the bush (= a wild area of land):

Naturalist Wyn Jones is an expert bushman.

More examples

  • For thousands of years, African Bushmen have eaten a cactus-like plant to suppress hunger.
  • Tomkinson offers non-hunting safaris that focus on experiencing life among native Zulus and bushmen.
  • an anthropologist studying the Bushmen of Africa
  • Kalahari bushmen, many of whom are illiterate, have had no way to pass on their vast knowledge of wildlife to people outside their culture.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Geography: deserts, prairies & wildernesses

  • badlands
  • common
  • desert
  • dust bowl
  • heath
  • meadow
  • moor
  • moorland
  • pampas
  • plain
  • scrub
  • steppe
  • sward
  • tall-grass prairie
  • the outback
  • tundra
  • undeveloped
  • waste
  • wasteland
  • wild

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Examples from literature

  • Australian bushmen do not, as a rule, make good walkers—their home has been the saddle. 
  • But it is admitted that the leaders were not bushmen and had had no experience in exploration. 
  • He was a bushman, rough and weather-beaten, with only one peculiarity. 
  • Sometimes the solitary bushman or prospector, looking across a deep valley, saw, nestled amongst the opposite hills, a beautiful meadow of grass. 
  • They were almost exactly in the situation of Australian bushmen who live exclusively by foraging, with some not-too-efficient hunting. 
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