kraal in French

kraal in French

What does "kraal" mean?

1. noun In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.
   "‘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.’"
2. noun In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.
   "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."
3. noun A fenced area used for keeping farm animals.
   "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."

kraal in a sentence

• ‘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.

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