arawak
Collocations
3VERB + ARAWAK
like
ARAWAK + NOUN
carib, peoples
PREP.
into, up
Definitions
noun
A member of an Amerindian people who lived in the region of the Caribbean when the Spanish arrived in America.
Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.
A member of an Arawak indigenous group.
name
A group of Amerindian languages spoken around the Caribbean.
A Caribbean language belonging to this group.
adj
Pertaining to the Arawak peoples
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northe
- arawakan
noun — a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in nort
- arawakan
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
2Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen
WiktionaryJean La Rose said despite this wealth of natural resources Amerindian groups like the Arawak, who make up 10 percent of the population, remain impoverished.
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