NAVAJO (navajoes)

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Irregular inflected form: navajoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Navajo mean? 

• NAVAJO (noun)
  The noun NAVAJO 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: NAVAJO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAVAJO (noun)

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 ("Navajo" 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 ("Navajo" is a kind of...):

Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan; Athapaskan language (a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir))