Definition of Dravidic

1. Noun. A large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka.


Definition of Dravidic

1. Proper noun. the Dravidian family of languages ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dravidic

Dragunov
Draize test
Draize tests
Drake
Drake equation
Drama
Drambuie
Drangiana
Draper's law
Draskhanakert
Drava
Drave
Dravidian
Dravidian language
Dravidians
Dravidic
Drayton
Dreaming
Dreamtime
Drechslera
Dred Scott
Dreiser
Dreissena polymorpha
Drenthe
Drepanididae
Drepanis
Dresden
Dresdenware
Dresdner
Dresdners

Literary usage of Dravidic

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

1. The Methodist Review (1877)
"The theory of indefinite time is unfathomable and yields no ore. We are compelled, in the next place, to compare living dravidic with dead Aryan forms. ..."

2. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1885)
"... (2), Malays; (3), American; (4), Altaic Chinese, etc. In this classification he has maintained that there are three types: 2. dravidic including Dekkan ..."

3. The American Antiquarian by Stephen Denison Peet (1880)
"They swept on down toward the Indian Ocean and the Malayan Peninsula and overwhelmed the dravidic race and covered the East with a civilization peculiarly ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... group of races: (1) Negro; (2) dark-coloured Indian (dravidic races); (3) Indonesian and Oceanic ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Hyderabad is the last diocese in the region of the dravidic peoples. Among the Arian population, the archdiocese of Calcutta stands out as the most ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Dravidic on Dictionary.com!Search for Dravidic on Thesaurus.com!Search for Dravidic on Google!Search for Dravidic on Wikipedia!

Search