native american
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of any of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
noun
In particular, a member of any of the Indigenous peoples of North America, or sometimes in particular the United States.
adj
Of the American Indians.
Example Sentences
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:Native American."
- "One of Chomsky's most recent books, Year 501: the Conquest Continues (1993), offers a panoramic view of what he sees as five hundred years of US terror and oppression, beginning with the treatment of the Native Americans and continuing through the Gulf War."
- "His name, as given on the records, was Joe Slater, or Slaader, and his appearance was that of the typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region; one of those strange, repellent scions of a primitive colonial peasant stock whose isolation for nearly three centuries in the hilly fastnesses of a little-travelled countryside has caused them to sink to a kind of barbaric degeneracy, […] their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people."
Usage
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Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
American Indian
Amerind
Amerindian
First American
Indian
Indigenous American
Indigenous North American
Injun
Native American
NDN
Red Indian
red man