Zulu

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A member of a Bantu people of southeast Africa, primarily inhabiting northeast Natal province in South Africa.
2. n. The Nguni language of this people, closely related to Xhosa.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A member of a warlike and superior branch of the Kafir race of South Africa, divided into many tribes. In the beginning of the nineteenth century several tribes of Zulus established a kingdom including the present British colony of Natal and the country north of it called Zululand, which was broken up and mostly absorbed by the British and the Boers during a succession of wars ending in 1883.
2. Of or pertaining to the Zulus: as, the Zulu language (a principal member of the Bantu group of languages) or government.

Wiktionary

1. n. The letter Z in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
2. adj. Pertaining to the Zulu people, culture, or language.
3. n. An individual member of the Zulu people.
4. n. The letter Z in the ICAO spelling alphabet
5. n. A designation for time along the prime meridian; UTC; Zulu time.
6. n. An African ethnic group living mainly in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in eastern South Africa.
7. n. The language of these people, a Bantu language; isiZulu.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Any member of the tribe of Zulus; a Zulu-Kaffir. See zulus.
2. n. (Philol.) One of the most important members of the South African, or Bantu, family of languages, spoken partly in Natal and partly in Zululand, but understood, and more or less in use, over a wide territory, at least as far north as the Zambezi; -- called also Zulu-Kaffir.
3. n. a word used in spoken communications to represent the letter Z.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a community of Negroid people in eastern South Africa
2. n. a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa
3. n. a member of the tall Negroid people of eastern South Africa; some live in KwaZulu-Natal under the traditional clan system but many now work in the cities