"mzee" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Swahili mzee",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Swahili mzee.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mzees",
      "tags": [
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    },
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      "form": "wazee",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2003, Ward S Just, The American Ambassador",
          "text": "...every President since Teddy Roosevelt saw Africa in the faces of her mzees, in their English suits or tribal robes...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Ernest Hemingway, Robert William Lewis, Under Kilimanjaro",
          "text": "It is difficult to be both and the older mzees resent the irregularity of the position.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Edward I Steinhart, Black poachers, white hunters: a social history of hunting in colonial Kenya",
          "text": "...we arranged an impromptu interview with this reluctant and less than candid local mzee, who lived near the Tsavo boundary.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "An elder (old person)."
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          "elder",
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        "(East Africa) An elder (old person)."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "senior"
        },
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          "word": "senior citizen"
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          "word": "old person"
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        "Africa",
        "East"
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    {
      "ipa": "/(ə)mˈzeɪ/",
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  "word": "mzee"
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Swahili mzee.",
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      "form": "mzees",
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      "form": "wazee",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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          "ref": "2003, Ward S Just, The American Ambassador",
          "text": "...every President since Teddy Roosevelt saw Africa in the faces of her mzees, in their English suits or tribal robes...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Ernest Hemingway, Robert William Lewis, Under Kilimanjaro",
          "text": "It is difficult to be both and the older mzees resent the irregularity of the position.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Edward I Steinhart, Black poachers, white hunters: a social history of hunting in colonial Kenya",
          "text": "...we arranged an impromptu interview with this reluctant and less than candid local mzee, who lived near the Tsavo boundary.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An elder (old person)."
      ],
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        "(East Africa) An elder (old person)."
      ],
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  "word": "mzee"
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