Amerindian

Definition: Amerindian

Amerindian

Noun

1. Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived.

Synonym: Amerindian

Synonym: Native American (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Amerindian

English words defined with "Amerindian": Amerindian language, Amerindian race, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Athapaskan language ♦ Hoka, Hokan ♦ Mosan ♦ Penutian. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Amerindian

Domain	Title
Books	A History of Barbados : From Amerindian Settlement to Nation-State (reference) Aboriginal Voices: Amerindian, Inuit, and Sami Theater (Paj Books) (reference) Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm (reference) Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus (Hispanic Issues, Vol 9) (reference) Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Amerindian

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Non-Fiction Usage: Amerindian

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Guyana	Travel to Amerindian areas requires government permission, the result of a law dating from colonial times designed to protect indigenous people from exploitation. (references)
Economic History	Argentina	Mestizo, Amerindian or other nonwhite groups 15%. (references)
	Guyana	The small Amerindian population lives in the country's interior. (references)
Indigenous People	Guyana	Both Amerindian individuals and groups remain free to criticize the Government. (references)
	Guyana	Access to education and health care in Amerindian communities is limited severely. (references)
	Guyana	The Amerindian population, which consists of nine tribal groups, constitutes an estimated 8 percent of the population. (references)
Political Rights	Suriname	Voters elected the first Amerindians to the National Assembly in 1996. In the May 2000 elections, voters elected eight Maroons and one Amerindian to the National Assembly. (references)
Travel	Guyana	Most Amerindians speak English, but in a few remote parts of the interior only Amerindian languages are spoken. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Amerindian

"Amerindian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amerindian" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	27	66,962

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Amerindian

Expressions using "Amerindian": amerindian language ♦ amerindian race. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Amerindian

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
amerindian	14
alaskan amerindian husky	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Amerindian

Language		Translations for "Amerindian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		американский индеец (amerind). (various references)

Spanish		amerindio (American Indian, amerind, Indian). (various references)

Turkish		kızılderili (american indian, amerind, indian, injun, red, red indian, redskin), eskimo (amerind, eskimo, esquimau). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Amerindian

Misspellings
	"Amerindian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amaranian, Amerind, Amerindia, amer-indie, Amerindo. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Amerindian

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-i-m-n-n-r"
	-2 letters: amandine, indamine, mandarin, marinade, meridian.
	-3 letters: amidine, araneid, denarii, diamine, inarmed, indamin, madeira, nardine.
	-4 letters: admire, aidman, aidmen, airman, airmen, amidin, anadem, anemia, aramid, daimen, damner, denari, diamin, dinner, endrin, inaner, maenad, maiden, manned, manner, marina, marine, median, medina, midair, minder, narine, radian, rained, randan, remain, remand, remind.
	-5 letters: adman, admen, aider, aimed, aimer.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-i-i-m-n-n-r"
	+3 letters: animadversion, animadverting, neuraminidase.
	+4 letters: animadversions, neuraminidases.
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