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Webster 1913 Edition


Bushman

Bush′man

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Bushmen
.
[Cf. D.
boschman
,
boschjesman
. See 1st
Bush
.]
1.
A woodsman; a settler in the bush.
2.
(Ethnol.)
One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.

Definition 2024


Bushman

Bushman

See also: bushman

English

Noun

Bushman (plural Bushmen)

  1. A member of a distinct ethnic group of nomadic people from southwest Africa.
  2. Any of the related Khoisan languages spoken by the San/Bushman peoples.

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bushman

bushman

See also: Bushman

English

Noun

bushman (plural bushmen)

  1. (Australia) A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback.
    • 1970, Douglas Pike, Australia: The Quiet Continent, page 230,
      To A. B. Paterson, son of a dispossessed squatter, writing from a city office, the bushmen with their horses and simple skills were the backbone of Australia.
    • 2000, Donald Denoon, Philippa Mein Smith, Marivic Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, page 214,
      Its[The Bulletin's] writers shaped ‘a group myth about Australians and their destiny’; in the absence of conventional heroes, visiting the past to claim the bushman as the first ‘Australian’, the anti-hero in the struggles against empire.
    • 2010, Susan Lawrence, Peter Davies, An Archaeology of Australia Since 1788, page 117,
      Later, historian Russel Ward (1958) famously identified the outback bushman as the “typical” Australian – a rugged individualist, courageous and loyal to his mates.

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