INCA

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• INCA (noun)
  The noun INCA has 3 senses:

1. a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)

2. a member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru

3. the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s

  Familiarity information: INCA used as a noun is uncommon.

• INCA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

ruler; swayer (a person who rules or commands)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Inca"):

Huayna Capac (the Incan ruler under whom the Incan empire reached its widest extent (died in 1525))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Inca; Incan; Inka

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

Kechua; Quechua (a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Inca; Inka

Instance hypernyms:

community (a group of people living in a particular local area)

Domain region:

Peru; Republic of Peru (a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries)