noun
1. a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived
• Syn: ↑Indian, ↑Red Indian
• Usage Domain: ↑derogation (for: ↑Red Indian)
• 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
2. any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
• Syn: ↑Amerind, ↑Amerindian language, ↑American-Indian language, ↑Indian
• Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue
• Hyponyms:
↑Algonquian, ↑Algonquin, ↑Algonquian language, ↑Atakapa, ↑Atakapan, ↑Attacapa, ↑Attacapan, ↑Athapaskan, ↑Athapascan, ↑Athabaskan, ↑Athabascan, ↑Athapaskan language, ↑Muskhogean, ↑Muskhogean language, ↑Muskogean, ↑Muskogean language, ↑Na-Dene, ↑Mosan, ↑Caddo, ↑Caddoan, ↑Caddoan language, ↑Iroquoian, ↑Iroquois, ↑Iroquoian language, ↑Quechua, ↑Quechuan, ↑Quechuan language, ↑Kechua, ↑Kechuan, ↑Maraco, ↑Maracan language, ↑Tupi-Guarani, ↑Tupi-Guarani language, ↑Arawak, ↑Arawakan, ↑Carib, ↑Caribbean language, ↑Uto-Aztecan, ↑Uto-Aztecan language, ↑Maya, ↑Mayan, ↑Mayan language, ↑Siouan, ↑Siouan language, ↑Tanoan, ↑Tanoan language, ↑Hokan, ↑Hoka, ↑Penutian
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Useful english dictionary. 2012.