noun
a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived
• Syn: ↑Indian, ↑American Indian
• Usage Domain: ↑derogation
• Hypernyms: ↑Amerindian, ↑Native American
• Hyponyms:
↑Algonquian, ↑Algonquin, ↑Anasazi, ↑Athapaskan, ↑Athapascan, ↑Athabaskan, ↑Athabascan, ↑Mayan, ↑Maya, ↑Nahuatl, ↑Olmec, ↑Zapotec, ↑Zapotecan, ↑Plains Indian, ↑Buffalo Indian, ↑Chickasaw, ↑Coeur d'Alene, ↑Creek, ↑Haida, ↑Hokan, ↑Hoka, ↑Iroquois, ↑Muskhogean, ↑Muskogean, ↑Penutian, ↑Pueblo, ↑Redskin, ↑Injun, ↑red man, ↑Salish, ↑Shoshone, ↑Shoshoni, ↑Taracahitian, ↑Tlingit, ↑Wakashan, ↑Aleut, ↑Aleutian, ↑Eskimo, ↑Esquimau, ↑Inuit, ↑Paleo-American, ↑Paleo-Amerind, ↑Paleo-Indian, ↑sannup, ↑squaw
• Member Holonyms: ↑Indian race, ↑Amerindian race
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Red Indiansee Indian n. 2 b.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.