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Webster 1913 Edition
Bushman
1.
A woodsman; a settler in the bush.
2.
(Ethnol.)
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.
Definition 2024
Bushman
Bushman
See also: bushman
English
Noun
Bushman (plural Bushmen)
- A member of a distinct ethnic group of nomadic people from southwest Africa.
- Any of the related Khoisan languages spoken by the San/Bushman peoples.
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bushman
bushman
See also: Bushman
English
Noun
bushman (plural bushmen)
- (Australia) A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback.
- 1970, Douglas Pike, Australia: The Quiet Continent, page 230,
- To A. B. Paterson, son of a dispossessed squatter, writing from a city office, the bushmen with their horses and simple skills were the backbone of Australia.
- 2000, Donald Denoon, Philippa Mein Smith, Marivic Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, page 214,
- Its[The Bulletin's] writers shaped ‘a group myth about Australians and their destiny’; in the absence of conventional heroes, visiting the past to claim the bushman as the first ‘Australian’, the anti-hero in the struggles against empire.
- 2010, Susan Lawrence, Peter Davies, An Archaeology of Australia Since 1788, page 117,
- Later, historian Russel Ward (1958) famously identified the outback bushman as the “typical” Australian – a rugged individualist, courageous and loyal to his mates.
- 1970, Douglas Pike, Australia: The Quiet Continent, page 230,