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Definition of Chokwe in English: ChokwenounˈtʃɒkweɪˈCHôkwā 1A member of a people living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) and northern Angola. 乔奎人（居住于扎伊尔 刚果民主共和国和安哥拉北部） Example sentencesExamples - Therefore, the essays deal more with the ‘related peoples’ referred to in the subtitle, while the Chokwe as such are the main focus of the catalogue sections.
- She said the people in the area had been plotting to have her removed from the school to allow a fellow Chokwe take over as school head teacher.
- As a whole, they provide an extraordinary window on the varied art forms that the Chokwe and related peoples created over at least the past two centuries.
- In effect, the Chokwe reduced the memorization of a lusona (singular of sona) to two numbers and a geometric algorithm for constructing one or more curves to create the desired pattern.
- Divination baskets and gourds, mostly from the Chokwe and Songye, contained collections of natural and artificial objects such as enigmatic miniature carvings of humans.
2mass noun The Bantu language of the Chokwe, with over a million speakers. 乔奎语（属班图语族，使用者超过100万） Example sentencesExamples - Six of the Bantu languages were selected as national languages: Chokwe, Kikongo, Kimbundo, Mbunda, Oxikuanyama, and Umbundu.
- Portuguese is the official language, although 95 percent of Angolans speak Ovimbundu, Mbundu, Kongo, Chokwe, and other languages.
adjectiveˈtʃɒkweɪˈCHôkwā Relating to the Chokwe or their language. （与）乔奎人（有关）的；（与）乔奎语（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - For instance, a Chokwe divination basket on a gourd base containing fifty-four items used by the diviner did not have any head motif.
- Thus, contrary to earlier descriptions by Bastin and others, on the basis of information gathered from Chokwe assistants in Zambia, the Chihongo masquerader is described here as a royal or chiefly character.
- A Chokwe chair and Yoruba door (the latter by Olowe of Ise) incorporated divination objects in their decoration.
- It is mainly thanks to the work of Bastin, who taught African art history at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, that Chokwe art is relatively well known.
- This mask's coiffure, entirely coated with red earth, depicts a style worn in the past by Chokwe women.
Definition of Chokwe in US English: ChokwenounˈCHôkwā 1A member of a people living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) and northern Angola. 乔奎人（居住于扎伊尔 刚果民主共和国和安哥拉北部） Example sentencesExamples - As a whole, they provide an extraordinary window on the varied art forms that the Chokwe and related peoples created over at least the past two centuries.
- Divination baskets and gourds, mostly from the Chokwe and Songye, contained collections of natural and artificial objects such as enigmatic miniature carvings of humans.
- She said the people in the area had been plotting to have her removed from the school to allow a fellow Chokwe take over as school head teacher.
- Therefore, the essays deal more with the ‘related peoples’ referred to in the subtitle, while the Chokwe as such are the main focus of the catalogue sections.
- In effect, the Chokwe reduced the memorization of a lusona (singular of sona) to two numbers and a geometric algorithm for constructing one or more curves to create the desired pattern.
2The Bantu language of the Chokwe. Example sentencesExamples - Portuguese is the official language, although 95 percent of Angolans speak Ovimbundu, Mbundu, Kongo, Chokwe, and other languages.
- Six of the Bantu languages were selected as national languages: Chokwe, Kikongo, Kimbundo, Mbunda, Oxikuanyama, and Umbundu.
adjectiveˈCHôkwā Relating to the Chokwe or their language. （与）乔奎人（有关）的；（与）乔奎语（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - Thus, contrary to earlier descriptions by Bastin and others, on the basis of information gathered from Chokwe assistants in Zambia, the Chihongo masquerader is described here as a royal or chiefly character.
- A Chokwe chair and Yoruba door (the latter by Olowe of Ise) incorporated divination objects in their decoration.
- It is mainly thanks to the work of Bastin, who taught African art history at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, that Chokwe art is relatively well known.
- For instance, a Chokwe divination basket on a gourd base containing fifty-four items used by the diviner did not have any head motif.
- This mask's coiffure, entirely coated with red earth, depicts a style worn in the past by Chokwe women.
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