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adj
Pertaining to a group of peoples mostly inhabiting Alaska, western Canada, the Pacific coast of California and Oregon, and the Navajo and Apache peoples in the American Southwest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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name
The family of languages spoken by these peoples.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any member of these peoples.
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noun
a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athapaskan language
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Amerind, Amerindian language, American-Indian language, American Indian, Indian
Narrower terms: Apache, Navaho, Navajo, Hupa, Mattole, Chipewyan, Chippewyan, Chippewaian
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Indian, American Indian, Red Indian
Narrower terms: Apache, Chipewyan, Hupa, Mattole, Navaho, Navajo
History
From Athabasca + -an, from Cree Ahđapaskâw (literally “where there are plants distributed in a net-like pattern”).
Across languages
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