Member of a Bantu people living in Zimbabwe

Usage examples of shona.

Gray One was already teasing the older wolf mercilessly, romping around her grayed hindquarters and throwing himself on his back in the mud when Gray Shona nipped him smartly.

Shona was saying charmingly as Blade headed for the huge green bulk of Scales at a sharp trot.

But instead of joining the crowd around Scales, he turned aside and rode up to Shona.

Hitherto it had been generally assumed that all the mining and stone-building cultures of the southern plateau were the work of Bantu-speaking peoples whose physical origins and appearance had been pretty much the same as those of their descendants living today -- Shona and Sotho, that is, of one branch or another.

Then the Sotho are thought to have gone south over the river into what is now the Transvaal in the middle of the fifteenth century, or thereabouts, and the Shona a little later.

Shona stopped for a moment to stare at the spectrographic computer, which was eight years newer and several grades of quality above the one she had in her own small lab.

Both these assessors were Shona: one was an expert on wildlife conservation, and the other a senior magistrate.

As the truck pulled up he came round to the offside window, asked a question in Shona, and the bereted guerrilla answered him easily.

They ate with the Shona officers in the mess, and the fare was the same as that served to detainees with the addition of a stew of stringy meat of indeterminate origin and dubious freshness.

He saw Shona Burke, nice girl from Haywards, one of the many people in Dublin who had been asked to look out for premises for the new catering company.

They saw Shona Burke having dinner with two of the senior Haywards people.

He listened intelligently while Shona explained that Haywards was busy encouraging the younger shopper, women in their twenties who would buy three or four outfits for summer or a whole holiday wardrobe rather than those who paid a fortune for two items.

She was unlikely to meet the love of her life or even a temporary soulmate, but still Shona would dress up and go there simply because she did not see herself as the kind of person who would sit alone in her apartment in Glenstar.

Two troopers slipped in through the front door, and reported to the sergeant in a gabble of Shona that Craig could not follow.

He gave orders in Shona, and the troopers racked their weapons in the back of the Land-Rover while the driver climbed up onto the rooftack and brought down three folding trenching-tools.