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Definition of Quechuan

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Quechua or their language.

2. Noun. The language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas.

Definition of Quechuan

1. Adjective. Of, or pertaining, to the Quechua people or language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quechuan

Quebec Quebec Bridge Quebec City Quebec Sign Language Quebecer Quebecers Quebecism Quebecker Quebeckers Quebecois

Quebracho crested tinamou Quebracho crested tinamous Quechan Quechua Quechuan (current term) Quechuan language Queckenstedt Queckenstedt's test Queckenstedt-Stookey test Queen's Counsel

Queen's English Queen Anne Queen Anne's Bounty Queen Anne's lace Queen Charlotte Islands Queen Charlotte Sound Queen City

Literary usage of Quechuan

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

1. Man, Past and Present by Augustus Henry Keane (1899)
"Garcilaso himself tells us that when the fourth Inca, Mayta-Capac, first penetrated to the lake district, the sight of these structures struck his Quechuan ..."

2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The Quechuan stock, authors of the most remarkable of South American civilizations, according to their own traditions spread from ..."

3. The Literary History of Spanish America by Alfred Coester (1916)
"It was formerly believed that this play was a relic of a Quechuan literature. The early Spanish historians, ..."

4. The Literary History of Spanish America by Alfred Coester (1916)
"It was formerly believed that this play was a relic of a Quechuan literature. The early Spanish historians, ..."

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