Home › Words › A › ashantiashanti/əˈʃɑːntiː/ashanti means A region in southern Ghana; in full, Ashanti Region.ashanti is pronounced /əˈʃɑːntiː/.EtymologyDerived from Akan asànté.nameA region in southern Ghana; in full, Ashanti Region.nounA member of a nation and ethnic group of Akan origin, found mainly in Ghana and Ivory Coast.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.akan 67% match — A people who inhabit Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. vs ashanti →nzema 60% match — Any member of an Akan people of southwestern Ghana and southeast Côte d'Ivoire. vs ashanti →fanti 59% match — A member of an ethnic group living in south-western Ghana (also known as Mfantsefo). vs ashanti →baoulé 58% match — An Akan people, one of the major ethnicities of Côte d'Ivoire, who historically migrated from what is today Ghana. vs ashanti →aja 57% match — A people living in parts of Benin and Togo. vs ashanti →akuapem 56% match — One of the main ethnic groups of the Akan people, residing mostly to the south of the Eastern Region of Ghana. vs ashanti →akebu 54% match — A people of southern Togo and southeastern Ghana. vs ashanti →coromantee 54% match — An enslaved person from the Akan ethnic group, taken from the Gold Coast region in modern-day Ghana. vs ashanti →