Dictionary entry details
• AMERICAN INDIAN (noun)
Meaning:
A member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
American Indian; Indian; Red Indian
Hypernyms ("American Indian" is a kind of...):
Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "American Indian"):
Shoshone; Shoshoni (a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States)
Salish (a member of a group of North American Indians speaking a Salishan language and living on the northwest coast of North America)
Injun; red man; Redskin (offensive terms for Native Americans)
Pueblo (a member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called pueblos by the Spanish because they live in villages built of adobe and rock)
Penutian (a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages)
Taracahitian (a member of a group of peoples of Mexico)
Tlingit (a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska)
Wakashan (a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language)
Aleut; Aleutian (a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska)
Eskimo; Esquimau; Inuit (a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo ('eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit ('the people'))
Paleo-American; Paleo-Amerind; Paleo-Indian (a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch)
sannup (a married male American Indian)
squaw (an American Indian woman)
Muskhogean; Muskogean (a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages)
Iroquois (any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York state; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution)
Hoka; Hokan (a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language)
Anasazi (a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings)
Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska)
Maya; Mayan (a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy)
Nahuatl (a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico)
Olmec (a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization centered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC)
Zapotec; Zapotecan (a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900)
Buffalo Indian; Plains Indian (a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America)
Chickasaw (a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi)
Coeur d'Alene (a member of an Amerindian people living in northern Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake)
Creek (any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma)
Haida (a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska)
Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)
Holonyms ("American Indian" is a member of...):
Amerindian race; Indian race (usually included in the Mongoloid race)
Meaning:
Any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
American-Indian language; Amerind; Amerindian language; American Indian; Indian
Hypernyms ("American Indian" is a kind of...):
natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "American Indian"):
Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)
Arawak; Arawakan (a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America)
Carib; Caribbean language (the family of languages spoken by the Carib)
Uto-Aztecan; Uto-Aztecan language (a family of American Indian languages)
Maya; Mayan; Mayan language (a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya)
Siouan; Siouan language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux)
Tanoan; Tanoan language (a family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States)
Hoka; Hokan (a family of Amerindian languages spoken in California)
Penutian (a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California)
Tupi-Guarani; Tupi-Guarani language (a family of South American Indian languages)
Maracan language; Maraco (the language spoken by the Maraco)
Atakapa; Atakapan; Attacapa; Attacapan (a language spoken by the Atakapa of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas)
Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan; Athapaskan language (a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir))
Muskhogean; Muskhogean language; Muskogean; Muskogean language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States)
Na-Dene (a family of North American Indian languages)
Mosan (a family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia)
Caddo; Caddoan; Caddoan language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo)
Iroquoian; Iroquoian language; Iroquois (a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois)
Kechua; Kechuan; Quechua; Quechuan; Quechuan language (the language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas)
