Mzee

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /(É™)mˈzeɪ/

Origin

From Swahili mzee.

Full definition of mzee

Noun

1. (East Africa) An elder (old person).
• 2003, Ward S Just, The American Ambassador‎...every President since Teddy Roosevelt saw Africa in the faces of her mzees, in their English suits or tribal robes...
• 2005, Ernest Hemingway, Robert William Lewis, Under Kilimanjaro‎It is difficult to be both and the older mzees resent the irregularity of the position.
• 2006, Edward I Steinhart, Black poachers, white hunters: a social history of hunting in colonial Kenya‎...we arranged an impromptu interview with this reluctant and less than candid local mzee, who lived near the Tsavo boundary.

Anagrams

• meze