What does "navajo" mean?
A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.
Navajo
/ˈnæ.və.həʊ/ name, noun
name, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.
- Grammar: navajo is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: autonomous, code talker, cultural, diné.
- Useful contrasts: non Navajo, non Navajo language, non code talker.
- Usage evidence: This is the ancestral territory of the Navajo people.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.
"As a code talker, Newman was one of a group of Navajos who learned a secret, unbreakable language that was used to send information on tactics, troop movements and orders over the radio and telephone during WWII."
- 2 the Athapaskan language spoken by the Navaho wordnet
- 3 a member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 An Apachean (Southern Athabaskan) language of the Athabascan language family belonging to the Na-Dené phylum. It is spoken by 149,000 people in the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado).
"Endangered language communities would be thrilled with and proud of that kind of exposure for their language, like when Star Wars was dubbed into Navajo and Ojibwe."
- 2 An Amerindian people who traditionally speak the Navajo language.
"One of the last remaining members of the Navajo Code Talkers, who used their difficult-to-learn language to form an indecipherable code that helped the Allies win World War II, has died."
Synonyms
All synonymsAntonyms
non Navajonon Navajo languagenon code talkernon sovereign
Example
"This is the ancestral territory of the Navajo people."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "navajo"?
Common synonyms include: autonomous, code talker, cultural, diné, diné language, ethnographic.
How do you use "navajo" in a sentence?
This is the ancestral territory of the Navajo people.
How do you pronounce "navajo"?
Pronounced /ˈnæ.və.həʊ/.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).