Usually means: Ethnic group in southwestern Nigeria.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. Yoruba, Yoruba: Merriam-Webster
  2. Yoruba: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Yoruba: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Yoruba: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Yoruba: Vocabulary.com
  6. Yoruba: Wordnik
  7. Yoruba: Wiktionary
  8. Yoruba: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Yoruba: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Yoruba: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. yoruba: Dictionary.com
  12. Yoruba: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Yoruba: Rhymezone
  14. yoruba: FreeDictionary.org
  15. yoruba: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Yoruba: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Yoruba: art glossary

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  1. Yoruba: Encyclopedia

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(Note: See yoruban as well.)

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noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A member of an ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria, southern Benin, and eastern Togo and, as well as in communities elsewhere in West Africa, United States, Brazil and Cuba.
noun:  A sub-Saharan language. It belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and has nearly 40 million speakers in Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and Sierra Leone, as well as communities in The United States, Brazil and Cuba.
noun:  An African traditional religion which spawned various offshoots in the Americas in the 15th to 19th centuries, including santería and Lucumí. (See Yoruba religion.)

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