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Definition of Carib

1. Noun. A member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles.

Definition of Carib

1. n. A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of South America, north of the Amazon, and formerly most of the West India islands.

Definition of Carib

1. Proper noun. A group of American Indian people of the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles. ¹

2. Proper noun. Any of the languages of these people. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carib

Literary usage of Carib

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

1. Camps in the Caribbees: The Adventures of a Naturalist in the Lesser Antilles by Frederick Albion Ober (1886)
"A Carib ROMANCE. — A LOVE TEST.—COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE. ... Carib COUNTRY is that portion of the island of St. Vincent lying between the central ridge of ..."

2. Essays Ethnological and Linguistic by James Kennedy (1861)
"The modern Carib has full one half of the words different from those given by the French authors two hundred years since, and I find the adoption generally ..."

3. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"THE Carib AS IMPORTED LANGUAGE—THE MOSQUITO LANGUAGE—THE POVA, ... It is the Carib, spoken on the shores of the bay of Honduras and on the adjacent islands, ..."

4. Latin-American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1920)
"So much importance was attached to it, says Gomara, that a song was formed commemorating it, sung as an areito in a ceremonial dance. VI. Carib ..."

5. Researches in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Comparative Philology, Mythology by Hyde Clarke (1875)
"Although there are many points of relationship between the Carib and the Dahomey, yet what is more assured is a connection with the Ankaras and Wun of ..."

6. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1890)
"[HIS work comprises a French and Carib Dictionary, in which not only the words are given, but also many short phrases and idioms, a little catechism, ..."

7. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"The Caribs, then, might easily have spread the elements Carib of culture throughout a vast tract comprising the interior of communi- the Northern continent ..."

8. British Guiana Boundary: Arbitration with the United States of Venezuela by Great Britain (1898)
"The Post- holder says, however, " that, according to the account of a Carib, the 1 »read-gardens planted there by them must be at least one year old, ..."

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