HAIDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Haida mean? 

• HAIDA (noun)
  The noun HAIDA has 2 senses:

1. a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska

2. the Na-Dene language of the Haida

  Familiarity information: HAIDA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAIDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Haida" is a kind of...):

Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Na-Dene language of the Haida

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Haida" is a kind of...):

Na-Dene (a family of North American Indian languages)

 Context examples 

The concept refers to population subgroups such as Eskimos, Aleuts, Inupiat, Yupik, Alutiiq, Egegik,and Pribilovian, Alaskan Athabascan, Tlingit, and Haida.

(Alaska Native, NCI Thesaurus)