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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A member of a group of pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles.

   "He was accepted as a Taino now and must adapt to their ways."

Proper Noun

1. 1
   Their Arawakan language, now extinct.
2. 2
   A municipality in Lombardy, Italy.

Example

More examples

"He was accepted as a Taino now and must adapt to their ways."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Taíno taino (“lord, noble, foremost”).

Etymology 2

From Italian Taino.

Related phrases

greater antilleslesser antilles

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