RED INDIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview 

• RED INDIAN (noun)
  The noun RED INDIAN has 1 sense:

1. a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived

  Familiarity information: RED INDIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED INDIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

American Indian; Indian; Red Indian

Hypernyms ("Red Indian" is a kind of...):

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

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

Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)

Penutian (a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages)

Pueblo (a member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called pueblos by the Spanish because they live in villages built of adobe and rock)

Injun; red man; Redskin (offensive terms for Native Americans)

Salish (a member of a group of North American Indians speaking a Salishan language and living on the northwest coast of North America)

Shoshone; Shoshoni (a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States)

Taracahitian (a member of a group of peoples of Mexico)

Tlingit (a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska)

Wakashan (a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language)

Aleut; Aleutian (a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska)

Eskimo; Esquimau; Inuit (a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo ('eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit ('the people'))

Paleo-American; Paleo-Amerind; Paleo-Indian (a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch)

sannup (a married male American Indian)

Muskhogean; Muskogean (a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages)

Iroquois (any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York state; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution)

Hoka; Hokan (a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language)

Anasazi (a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings)

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)

Maya; Mayan (a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy)

Nahuatl (a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico)

Olmec (a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization centered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC)

Zapotec; Zapotecan (a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900)

Buffalo Indian; Plains Indian (a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America)

Chickasaw (a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi)

Coeur d'Alene (a member of an Amerindian people living in northern Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake)

Creek (any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma)

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

squaw (an American Indian woman)

Holonyms ("Red Indian" is a member of...):

Amerindian race; Indian race (usually included in the Mongoloid race)