Usually means: Bantu language spoken in East Africa.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word Swahili:

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  1. swahili: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Swahili, Swahili: Merriam-Webster
  3. Swahili: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Swahili: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Swahili: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Swahili: Vocabulary.com
  7. Swahili, swahili: Wordnik
  8. Swahili: Wiktionary
  9. Swahili: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Swahili: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Swahili: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. swahili: Dictionary.com
  13. Swahili: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Swahili: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Swahili: Rhymezone
  16. swahili: FreeDictionary.org
  17. Swahili: Robb: Swahili English
  18. swahili: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Swahili: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Swahili: Encyclopedia

(Note: See swahilis as well.)

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noun:  An agglutinative language of the Bantu branch widely spoken in East Africa. Born in its modern form from the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade.
noun:  A member of various ethnic groups — mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab and Comorian — inhabiting the Swahili coast.

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