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zimbabwe

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,657 of 15,258mostly written

Zimbabwe is the southern African country of Victoria Falls. Travel to Zimbabwe, born in Zimbabwe, the east of Zimbabwe.

The falls are among the largest sheets of falling water in the world, and the local name means the smoke that thunders. The country is named after Great Zimbabwe, a stone city built between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries whose ruins still stand.

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Definitions of zimbabwe

  1. 1nounzimbabweA country in southern Africa.B1+

    “Harare is the capital of Zimbabwe.”

zimbabwe is a country.

Where it comes from

From a Shona word meaning houses of stone, after the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe.

From the bnt - word for a meeting house.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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zimbabwe in the wild

  • The word great distinguishes the site from the many smaller ruins, known as "zimbabwes", or "houses of stone", spread across the Zimbabwe Highveld.

    Great Zimbabwe

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.