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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An inhabitant of ancient Ethiopia; an Ethiopian.
  • noun In a wider sense, in both ancient and modern times, an African; a negro.
  • noun Also spelled Æthiop.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man.

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