variants
or Masai
plural Maasai or Maasais or Masai or Masais
1
: a member of a pastoral and hunting people of Kenya and Tanzania
2
: the Nilotic language of the Maasai people
Examples of Maasai in a Sentence
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The Maasai Mara is iconic because of the Great Migration.
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Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2024
By staying there, guests also contribute to the lodge’s Big Life Foundation which helps to preserve the Maasai traditional lifestyle and works to combat poaching.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
The irony is that those savannah lands only look like that because they’ve been grazed by the Maasai’s cattle for thousands of years.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 11 July 2024
Her tall, statuette frame prompted guesses about whether Gore was Maasai, an ethnic group from Kenya's northern, central and southern regions.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2024
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Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2024
By staying there, guests also contribute to the lodge’s Big Life Foundation which helps to preserve the Maasai traditional lifestyle and works to combat poaching.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
The irony is that those savannah lands only look like that because they’ve been grazed by the Maasai’s cattle for thousands of years.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 11 July 2024
Her tall, statuette frame prompted guesses about whether Gore was Maasai, an ethnic group from Kenya's northern, central and southern regions.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2024
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“Maasai.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Maasai. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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