mandela

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Pronunciation

/mænˈdɛlə/

Definition of mandela

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

A surname from Xhosa, notably borne by Nelson Mandela.

“Our common room, thanks to a morally rectitudinous constitutional change some time previously, was known as the Nelson Mandela Room.”
“This scenario would hark back to the post-apartheid era when South Africa operated under a GNU to oversee the new constitution, led by Mandela as president and FW de Klerk and Thabo Mbeki as deputy presidents, between April 1994 and February 1997.”

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name

A surname from Xhosa, notably borne by Nelson Mandela.

“Our common room, thanks to a morally rectitudinous constitutional change some time previously, was known as the Nelson Mandela Room.”
“This scenario would hark back to the post-apartheid era when South Africa operated under a GNU to oversee the new constitution, led by Mandela as president and FW de Klerk and Thabo Mbeki as deputy presidents, between April 1994 and February 1997.”

verb

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Borrowed from Xhosa Mandela.

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