What does "toltec" mean?

A member of a pre-Columbian Native American people who dominated much of central Mexico between the 10th and 12th centuries AD.

Toltec

Common synonyms include: cultivated, refined, sophisticated, toltec architecture, toltec civilization, toltec culture.

noun

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Noun

1
A member of a pre-Columbian Native American people who dominated much of central Mexico between the 10th and 12th centuries AD.
2
a member of the Nahuatl speaking people of central and southern Mexico wordnet

From Spanish tolteca, from Nahuatl tōltēcah, plural of tōltēcatl (“inhabitant of Tollan”), from Tōllān + -catl.