native californian
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An indigenous person of California; a member of one of the indigenous tribes historically associated with California.
adj
Of or relating to the Native Californians.
Example Sentences
- "Our soil and climate are peculiarly adapted to the culture of what has contributed so much to the comfort and welfare of the Native Californian."
- "The effete finger-twisting techniques of modern survival books and classes are tedious and slow and assume that we are all too citified to learn what every Native Californian knew well: the hand rolling of cordage on the thigh."
- "I have devoted so much space to emphasizing religious and social behavior because Native Californian civilization must be viewed as a 15000-year effort to perfect the inter-human and human-creation relationships."
- "It is not clear whether Native Californian women who established joint residences with Native Alaskan, Creole, or Russian men were drafted into mandatory service for the Company."
Inflected Forms
Native Californians (plural)
more Native Californian (comparative)
most Native Californian (superlative)