DRAVIDIAN

• DRAVIDIAN (noun)
  The noun DRAVIDIAN has 2 senses:

1. a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them)
2. a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka

  Familiarity information: DRAVIDIAN used as a noun is rare.

• DRAVIDIAN (noun)

Meaning:

A member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Dravidian" is a kind of...):

Indian (a native or inhabitant of India)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Dravidian"):

Malto (a member of the Dravidian people living in northern Bengal in eastern India)

Savara (a member of the Dravidian people living in southern India)

Tamil (a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka)

Telugu (a member of the people in southeastern India (Andhra Pradesh) who speak the Telugu language)

Toda (a member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri Hills of southern India)

Kui (a member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India)

Kota; Kotar (a member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri Hills in southern India)

Kolam (a member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India)

Kodagu (a member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India)

Canarese; Kanarese (a member of a Kannada-speaking group of people living chiefly in Kanara in southern India)

Gond (a member of a formerly tribal people in south central India)

Gadaba (a member of an agricultural people in southeastern India)

Badaga (a member of an agricultural people of southern India)

Tulu (a member of a Dravidian people living on the southwestern coast of India)

Meaning:

A large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Dravidian language; Dravidic; Dravidian

Hypernyms ("Dravidian" 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 "Dravidian"):

South Dravidian (a Dravidian language spoken primarily in southern India)

South-Central Dravidian (a Dravidian language spoken primarily in south central India)

Central Dravidian (a Dravidian language spoken primarily in central India)

North Dravidian (a Dravidian language spoken primarily in eastern India)