<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>Bantus</li><li>(especially collectively) Bantu</li><li>a member of any of several peoples forming a linguistically and in some respects culturally interrelated family in central and southern Africa</li><li>a grouping of more than 500 languages of central and southern Africa, as Kikuyu, Swahili, Tswana, and Zulu, all related within a subbranch of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>of, relating to, or characteristic of Bantu or the Bantu peoples</li></ul>