bushman - Kamus SABDA Mobile

Found 1 definition: bushman.

Pos: Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun bushman has 2 senses

1. bushman(n = noun.person) - a member of the race of nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa;
is a kind of nomad

2. bushman(n = noun.person) - a dweller in the Australian bush country;
is a kind of pioneer

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

bushman, n. [Cf. D. boschman, boschjesman. See 1st Bush.].

1. A woodsman; a settler in the bush. [1913 Webster]

2. 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. [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

bushman, n. (pl. -men)
1 a person who lives or travels in the Australian bush.
2 (Bushman) a a member of an aboriginal people in S. Africa. b the language of this people.

Etymology:
BUSH(1) + MAN: sense 2 after Du. boschjesman f. bosch bush