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arawak::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | arawakan |
| Type of | amerindian, native american |
| Derivation | arawakan |
arawak::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | arawakan |
| Type of | indian, american indian, amerind, american-indian language, amerindian language |
| Derivation | arawakan |
Examples of arawak
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Arawak men had never done gardening or work around home.
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Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat.
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Arawak hospitality always involved eating and drinking together and even drank of fermented cassava, held frequent love feasts, and fought at their festivals.
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- A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America
- The Arawak people (from aru, the Lucayan word for cassava flour) are some of the peoples of the West Indies. The group belongs to the Arawakan language family. They were the natives whom Christopher Columbus encountered when he first landed in the Americas in 1492. ...
- Amerindian peoples who inhabited the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean at the time of Columbus. (p. 423)
- Aboriginal people of the Caribbean, now extinct, whose art survives in cult images of wood, stone, bone, shell and clay. Although the figures are highly stylized, details of face, torso and joints are realistically rendered. The figures were embellished with gold ornaments.
