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Definition of Bwana
1. Noun. (slang) Big boss, important person. Not always used as a favorable term. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bwana
1. master; boss [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bwana
Literary usage of Bwana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country: A Record of Travel and Discovery in by Albert Bushnell Lloyd (1900)
"... CHAPTER V THE LAST STAGES Farewell to bwana ... We felt very grateful for all
the kindness shown to us by the old Arab governor, bwana ..."
2. My Third Campaign in East Africa: A Story of Missionary Life in Troublous Times by William Salter Price (1891)
"... not having come before, said: " We are not used to think of our bwana as sick ".
It is no doubt good for me to be laid aside, that I may learn " how ..."
3. Zanzibar in Contemporary Times: A Short History of the Southern East in the by Robert Nunez Lyne (1905)
"bwana means " master," bwana mkubwa, " great master." The latter is a vulgarised
complimentary distinction used in respect of the head of every household, ..."
4. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"The porters speedily christened each of the white men by some title of their own,
using the ordinary Swahili title of bwana (master) as a prefix. ..."
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