Associations to the word «Berber»

Wiktionary

BERBER, noun. A member of a particular ethnic group indigenous to northwest Africa.
BERBER, proper noun. A group of closely related Afroasiatic languages spoken in northern Africa, particularly Morocco and Algeria.
BERBER, adjective. Of the Berber people, their culture, or their language.

Dictionary definition

BERBER, noun. A member of an indigenous people of northern Africa.
BERBER, noun. A cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats