INCA

Pronunciation (US):

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

1. a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)
2. a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s

  Familiarity information: INCA used as a noun is rare.

• INCA (noun)

Meaning:

A ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

ruler; swayer (a person who rules or commands)

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

Huayna Capac (the Incan ruler under whom the Incan empire reached its widest extent (died in 1525))

Meaning:

A member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Incan; Inka; Inca

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

Kechua; Quechua (a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire)