<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Of or relating to Ethiopia or to its inhabitants.</li><li>Belonging to the part of Africa south of the equator.</li><li>Zoogeography: belonging to a geographical division comprising Africa south of the tropic of Cancer, the southern part of Arabia, and Madagascar.</li><li>Archaic: Black African.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A native of Ethiopia.</li><li>A member of any of various supposedly dark-skinned peoples regarded by the ancients as coming from a country lying south of Egypt.</li><li>Archaic: a Black African.</li></ul>