band
Naija
Etymology
From: English band.
Pronunciation
- bând
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2753
- Frequency in raw corpus: 41
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3569
Noun
- Na group of people wey dey play music
- I love Fela and his Afrobeat band die! — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. I love Fela and his Afrobeat band madly.)
- Di pop star tok say dem no give im band visa for di show. — (bbc__102698, __The Pop star said his band was denied visa.)
- Beyoncé wey be di first black woman to headline Coachella, pay tribute to Fela Anikulapo Kuti as her band perform Zombie. — (bbc__20020, __Beyoncé, the first African woman to headline Coachella paid tribute to Fela Anikulapo Kuti who created Zombie, as her band performed the song.)
- Na waist of trouser of skirt
- De band of the new skirt too loose, help me hold am wellwell. — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. The waistline of my new skirt is too loose, reduce it.)
- De trouser band done dey tight me, na my papa dash me. — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. The trouser is a dash from my Dad, its now tight around the waistband.)
- Na name wey dem dey call drum sometimes
- I like to dey play band. — (Egbokhare_2020. I like playing drum.)
- Anyday Joshua come church, everybody dey know. He sabi beat band no be lie. — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. Once Joshua is in church, the beat of the drum is usually different. He is really an expert)
Derived forms
Synonyms
Translations
- English: drum band, musical band, trouzer band