Arawak

Synonyms for "arawak" (9 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
arawakanarawak artifacts

Strong matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
arawak craftsarawakan languagesarawakan tongues

Related words (4)

Noun(2 words)
ethnic grouptribe

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

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More general

16 entries
American IndianAmerican Indian languageAmerican-Indian languageAmerindAmerind languageAmerindianAmerindian languageIndianIndian languageNative Americancultural groupethnic groupindigenous peoplelanguage familylinguistic familylinguistic group

More specific

8 entries
Arawak potteryArawak toolsLokonoLokono languageLokono peopleTaínoTaíno languageTaíno people

Collocations

9 entries
Arawak artifactsArawak cultureArawak historyArawak languageArawak peopleArawak potteryArawak studiesArawak territoryArawak weaving

Inflections

3 entries
Arawaksmore Arawakmost Arawak

Derivations

1 entries

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Jean La Rose said despite this wealth of natural resources Amerindian groups like the Arawak, who make up 10 percent of the population, remain impoverished.

Source: tatoeba (11592963)

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.

Source: wiktionary

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