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NAVAJO
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Irregular inflected form: navajoes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Athapaskan language spoken by the Navaho
Synonyms:
Navaho; Navajo
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Navajo" is a kind of...):
Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan; Athapaskan language (a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah
Synonyms:
Navaho; Navajo
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Navajo" is a kind of...):
Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska)