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NAVAHO (navahoes)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Navaho mean?
• NAVAHO (noun)
The noun NAVAHO has 2 senses:
1. a member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah
2. the Athapaskan language spoken by the Navaho
Familiarity information: NAVAHO used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Navaho; Navajo
Hypernyms ("Navaho" is a kind of...):
Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The Athapaskan language spoken by the Navaho
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Navaho; Navajo
Hypernyms ("Navaho" is a kind of...):
Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan; Athapaskan language (a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir))
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