Meaning

In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community..

Definitions by Sense

1. In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.
2. In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.
3. An enclosure for livestock.
4. (transitive) To enclose (livestock) within a kraal or stockade.

Example Sentences

Onanis is the permanent residence of a kraal of very poor Hill-Damaras, who subsist chiefly upon the few wild roots which their sterile neighborhood produces.

‘The paraffin box covered with newsprint, and the primus, and the bucket standing on the floor, and a photo of our kraal’s chief on the wall.’

A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts.

The animal, which is now six years old, was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep sharing the same kraal.

[…] he knew that one of these beasts was in the habit of harassing the goat-kids, which, for better security, he had kraaled against the wall of the house.

Word Forms

• kraals
• kraaling
• kraaled

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Use kraal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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