Associations to the word «Griot»

Wiktionary

GRIOT, noun. A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.
GRIOT, noun. A Haitian dish of fried pork.

Dictionary definition

GRIOT, noun. A storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village.

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