Amerindian 1

noundomain: person

Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]

English

Definition

any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived

Synonyms

Native American 1
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived

Hyponym

Algonquian 1

noun

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

Anasazi 1

noun

a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings

Athapaskan 1

noun

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

Mayan 1

noun

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 1

noun

a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico

Member_of_this_domain_-_TOPIC

war party 1

noun

a band of warriors who raid or fight an enemy (used especially of Native Americans)