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name
Any of the languages of these people.
The Kari'na or Carib language proper, a Cariban language.
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name
Any of the languages of these people.
The Kalinago or Island Carib language, an unrelated Arawakan language.
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name
Any of the languages of these people.
The Garifuna language, an offshoot of Kalinago.
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noun
A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
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noun
A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
A member of the mainland or ‘proper’ Caribs (Kari'na), a Cariban people who inhabit the north coast of South America, in parts of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
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noun
A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
A member of the Kalinago people of the Lesser Antilles, an Arawakan people who took heavy cultural influence from the mainland Caribs and so were formerly known as Island Caribs.
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noun
A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
A member of the Garifuna people of Honduras, historically known as Black Caribs, descendants of mixed Kalinago people and Africans who were deported to the Central American mainland in the 18th century.
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noun
A hummingbird of the genus Eulampis.
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Broader terms: hummingbird, bird, animal, creature
noun
the family of languages spoken by the Carib
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Caribbean language
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Broader terms: Amerind, Amerindian language, American-Indian language, American Indian, Indian
noun
a member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Carib Indian
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Broader terms: Amerindian, Native American
History
Borrowed from Spanish Caribe, likely from a Kalinago term corresponding to karifuna (“Kalinago person”) in modern Kalinago, a borrowing from a Cariban language, ultimately from Proto-Cariban *karipona (“person”). Compare Kari'na karìna (“Carib person”). Doublet of cannibal, caribe, Carijona, Galibi, Garifuna, and Kari'na.
Across languages
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