1a member of a group of peoples living chiefly in Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa.
2 [mass noun] the group of Bantu languages spoken by the Sotho peoples, of which the most important are Sepedi (also called North Sotho) and Sesotho (also called South Sotho). The term Western Sotho is sometimes used of the related language Setswana.
