bushman

Noun

Meaning

A woodsman; a settler in the bush.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Khoisan san national aboriginal kern forester woodman shearer mountaineer woodsman hillbilly hick lout ancient native
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Antonyms

alien peer

Hypernyms

nomad pioneer

Phrases with the word

bushman hare bushman rabbit bushman's clock bushman's breakfast

Derivatives

Bushmen

Examples

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman. Sinclair Lewis

In any modern city, a great deal of our energy has to be expended in not seeing, not hearing, not smelling. An inhabitant of New York who possessed the sensory acuteness of an African Bushman would very soon go mad. W. H. Auden

Actor Francis X. Bushman started his career as a bodybuilder and sculptor's model before beginning his famous silent movie career. Source: Internet

“Coming in, we told the girls that we had to handle their pressure,” says veteran Raider coach Jeremy Bushman. Source: Internet

Bushman hasn’t said yet whether or not he will return in 2021, or enter April’s NFL draft. Source: Internet

It also disrupts the way information is processed (Bushman 1993, 1997; Bushman & Cooper 1990). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

bushlips bushly bushmakinite bushman grass bushman hare bushman poison