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Definition of Arawakan

1. Noun. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak.

3. Noun. A family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arawakan

Araucania Araucanian Araucanians Araucanization Araucaria araucana Araucaria bidwillii Araucaria columnaris Araucaria cunninghamii Araucaria excelsa Araucaria heterophylla

Araucariaceae Araujia Araujia sericofera Arava Arawak Arawakan (current term) Arawn Arax Araxes Arbil

Arbor Day Arbury Arbuthnotian Arbutus menziesii Arbutus unedo Arbëresh Arbëreshë Albanian Arc de Triomphe Arca

Literary usage of Arawakan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru by William Curtis Farabee (1922)
"INDIAN TRIBES OF EASTERN PERU Arawakan STOCK ... an Arawakan tribe related to the Campa, occupy the territory along the middle course of the Urubamba River ..."

2. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1922)
"INDIAN TRIBES OF EASTERN PERU Arawakan STOCK ... an Arawakan tribe related to the Campa, occupy the territory along the middle course of the Urubamba River ..."

3. Man, Past and Present by Augustus Henry Keane (1900)
"... the countless Brazilian aborigines in four main divisions, which in conformity with Powell's terminology may here be named the CARIBAN, Arawakan, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... the Athabaskan in modern limes; the existence of an Arawakan colony in southwestern Florida, a loth-century representative in North ..."

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