WAKASHAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wakashan mean? 

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

1. a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language

2. a family of North American Indian languages of British Columbia and Washington

  Familiarity information: WAKASHAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAKASHAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Wakashan" 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 "Wakashan"):

Kwakiutl (a member of the Wakashan people living around Queen Charlotte Sound and on northern Vancouver Island)

Nootka (a member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A family of North American Indian languages of British Columbia and Washington

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Wakashan; Wakashan language

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

Mosan (a family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia)

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

Kwakiutl (a Wakashan language spoken by the Kwakiutl)

Nootka (a Wakashan language spoken by the Nootka)