English noun: American Indian |
| 1. | American Indian (person) a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived |
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| Synonyms | Indian, Red Indian |
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| Broader (hypernym) | Amerindian, Native American |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Aleut, Aleutian, Algonquian, Algonquin, Anasazi, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Buffalo Indian, Chickasaw, Coeur d'Alene, Creek, Eskimo, Esquimau, Haida, Hoka, Hokan, Injun, Inuit, Iroquois, Maya, Mayan, Muskhogean, Muskogean, Nahuatl, Olmec, Paleo-American, Paleo-Amerind, Paleo-Indian, Penutian, Plains Indian, Pueblo, red man, Redskin, Salish, sannup, Shoshone, Shoshoni, squaw, Taracahitian, Tlingit, Wakashan, Zapotec, Zapotecan |
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| Member meronym | Amerindian race, Indian race |
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| 2. | American Indian (communication) any of the languages spoken by Amerindians |
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| Synonyms | American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, Indian |
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| Broader (hypernym) | natural language, tongue |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin, Arawak, Arawakan, Atakapa, Atakapan, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Athapaskan language, Attacapa, Attacapan, Caddo, Caddoan, Caddoan language, Carib, Caribbean language, Hoka, Hokan, Iroquoian, Iroquoian language, Iroquois, Kechua, Kechuan, Maracan language, Maraco, Maya, Mayan, Mayan language, Mosan, Muskhogean, Muskhogean language, Muskogean, Muskogean language, Na-Dene, Penutian, Quechua, Quechuan, Quechuan language, Siouan, Siouan language, Tanoan, Tanoan language, Tupi-Guarani, Tupi-Guarani language, Uto-Aztecan, Uto-Aztecan language |
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