Mende
Americannoun
plural
Mendes,plural
Mende-
a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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a Niger-Congo language of the Mande branch spoken by the Mende people.
Example Sentences
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Australian Michael Matthews produced a brilliant ride to win a tough and hilly stage 14 of the Tour de France from Saint-Etienne to Mende.
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2022
When Mende, mother of two, tosses herself into the Yaselda River after her husband runs off to Minsk, her sister, Fanny, decides that enough is enough: She will track down the good-for-nothing man herself.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2021
But the term for Ebola in Mende, one of Sierra Leone’s languages, became “monda wote,” which translates to “family turn round.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2020
Some are beautiful, if obscure, like the Mende mask from Sierra Leone, and the white oak plate and vessel from 20th century Ukraine, crockery made from a tree sacred to Ukrainians.
From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2020
He was Mende and he understood Krio very well.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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