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Definition of Amerindian

1. Noun. Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived.

Definition of Amerindian

1. Noun. An American Indian. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amerindian

Literary usage of Amerindian

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

1. The Negro in the New World by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1910)
"Then if this Caucasian- amerindian-Octoroon fusion be already assumed (producing as an ultimate result a series of racial types extremely like those of ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"The fine-looking police of Argentina is now mainly pure amerindian in blood, or of the handsome Gaucho half-breed. The President of Brazil is, ..."

3. Diabetes in America by Ronald Aubert (1996)
"It has been hypothesized that amerindian populations are enriched with diabetogenic genes and that the high prevalence of NIDDM observed in Mexican ..."

4. Guatemala by Carlos Soldevila (2000)
"It was a way of distinguishing between amerindians and mestizos of white and amerindian descent, usually a European man and an amerindian woman. ..."

5. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard (1920)
"Here dwells the "amerindian" race. At the time of Columbus the whole western ... In the intermediate zone above mentioned, however, the amerindian has ..."

6. Panama Adventure Guide by Patricia Katzman (2004)
"About six percent of the population are unmixed indigenous amerindian, and smaller communities of Chinese, Indians, Jews and Arabs have made important ..."

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