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Definition of Amerind
1. Noun. Any of the languages spoken by Amerindians.
Generic synonyms: Natural Language, Tongue
Specialized synonyms: Algonquian, Algonquian Language, Algonquin, Atakapa, Atakapan, Attacapa, Attacapan, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Athapaskan Language, Muskhogean, Muskhogean Language, Muskogean, Muskogean Language, Na-dene, Mosan, Caddo, Caddoan, Caddoan Language, Iroquoian, Iroquoian Language, Iroquois, Kechua, Kechuan, Quechua, Quechuan, Quechuan Language, Maracan Language, Maraco, Tupi-guarani, Tupi-guarani Language, Arawak, Arawakan, Carib, Caribbean Language, Uto-aztecan, Uto-aztecan Language, Maya, Mayan, Mayan Language, Siouan, Siouan Language, Tanoan, Tanoan Language, Hoka, Hokan, Penutian
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages. "Indian arrowheads"
Partainyms: American Indian, American Indian, American Indian, American Indian
Definition of Amerind
1. Noun. An American Indian. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amerind
Literary usage of Amerind
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"In some respects Mark Twain in his shorter anecdotes, and Edgar Lee Masters in
the Spoon River Anthology, have come nearer the mark of amerind humour than ..."
2. Arts of the World: Comparative Art Studies by Edwin Swift Balch (1920)
"But the art feeling underlying the various outbursts of amerind art is ...
It is difficult to classify amerind art into subdivisions with anything like ..."
3. The World's Peoples: A Popular Account of Their Bodily & Mental Characters by Augustus Henry Keane (1908)
"But ethnologists have always felt that this last was an absurd expression, and
as they could not quite get rid of it, the contracted form amerind, that is, ..."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1900)
"WHY amerind? A recommendation, apparently serious, has recently been made to
replace the name American Indian by the especially- coined word amerind. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Until recently all of both Amer- icas was occupied by the amerind race, and the
red men were confined to these continents with their neighboring islands and ..."
6. Nantucket; a History by Robert Alexander Douglas-Lithgow (1914)
"CHAPTER II LEGENDS, DISCOVERY, AND amerind PLACE-NAMES AMONG the Indian tribes
of this vast American continent much legendary lore prevailed, and there were ..."
7. Comparative Art by Edwin Swift Balch (1906)
"There are several branches of art in America, and it might perhaps be divided
into five types, namely: Eskimo art; West North amerind art; ..."
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