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noun
A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A Haitian dish of fried pork.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: narrator, storyteller, teller
History
Borrowed from French griot.
French griot
Across languages
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
