Meanings
alternative Sesoto · alternative Sesuto · alternative Sesutho
- A Bantu language spoken mainly in Lesotho and in the Free State and Gauteng provinces of South Africa.
Synonyms: Sotho, Southern Sesotho, Southern Sotho
alternative Sesoto · alternative Sesuto · alternative Sesutho
- A member of an African ethnic group who speak the Sesotho language.
Synonyms: Mosotho
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA Bantu language spoken mainly in Lesotho and in the Free State and Gauteng provinces of South Africa.
nounA member of an African ethnic group who speak the Sesotho language.
More synonyms by meaning
nounany of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- SothoSesotho
- SothoSesotho
- EnglishSesotho
Borrowed from Sotho Sesotho.
More words from Sotho
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Afrikaans Suid-Sotho, Sesotho
- Suid-SothoBantu language
- SesothoBantu language
- Suid-Sothopertaining to the Basotho
Chinese Mandarin 塞索托語 /塞索托语, 塞蘇陀語 /塞苏陀语
- 塞索托語 /塞索托语 (Sàisuǒtuōyǔ)Bantu language
- 塞蘇陀語 /塞苏陀语 (Sàisūtuóyǔ)Bantu language
Irish Basútach
- Basútachpertaining to the Basotho
Russian сесо́то
- сесо́то (sesóto)Bantu language
Cite this entry
Sesotho. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sesotho
“Sesotho.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sesotho. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sesotho,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sesotho.
Source: Sesotho on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.