Dictionary
Men•de
Pronunciation: (men'dē), [key]—
n.,
—pl. -des, (esp. collectively) -de for 1.
1. a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
2. a Niger-Congo language of the Mande branch spoken by the Mende people.
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