Arawak

Definitions

1. A member of an Amerindian people who lived in the region of the Caribbean when the Spanish arrived in America.
2. A group of Amerindian languages spoken around the Caribbean.
3. A member of an Arawak indigenous group.
4. A Caribbean language belonging to this group.

Equivalents

Examples

“Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like⟳ the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.”

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