"banton" meaning in Jamaican Creole

See banton in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈbantan/ Forms: banton dem [plural], banton [quantified]
Head templates: {{head|jam|nouns|10=|head=banton}} banton, {{jam-noun}} banton (plural banton dem, quantified banton)
  1. storyteller Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-banton-jam-noun-Kl4eodz- Categories (other): Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "banton dem",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "banton",
      "tags": [
        "quantified"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "10": "",
        "2": "nouns",
        "head": "banton"
      },
      "expansion": "banton",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "banton (plural banton dem, quantified banton)",
      "name": "jam-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ban‧ton"
  ],
  "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "jam",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "jam:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Howard J. Blumenthal, The World Music CD Listener's Guide (in English), →ISBN, page 23:",
          "text": "“It's not clear whether the Banton name came from a local term used to describe a storyteller or from Jamaican performer Burro Banton (perhaps both)”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "storyteller"
      ],
      "id": "en-banton-jam-noun-Kl4eodz-",
      "links": [
        [
          "storyteller",
          "storyteller"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbantan/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "banton"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "banton dem",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "banton",
      "tags": [
        "quantified"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "10": "",
        "2": "nouns",
        "head": "banton"
      },
      "expansion": "banton",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "banton (plural banton dem, quantified banton)",
      "name": "jam-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ban‧ton"
  ],
  "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header",
        "Jamaican Creole lemmas",
        "Jamaican Creole nouns",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with quotations",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with redundant head parameter",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "jam:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Howard J. Blumenthal, The World Music CD Listener's Guide (in English), →ISBN, page 23:",
          "text": "“It's not clear whether the Banton name came from a local term used to describe a storyteller or from Jamaican performer Burro Banton (perhaps both)”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "storyteller"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "storyteller",
          "storyteller"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbantan/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "banton"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Jamaican Creole dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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