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.