Definitions for Arawak

Arawak Ar·a·wak

Spelling: [ar-uh-wahk, -wak]
IPA: /ˈær əˌwɑk, -ˌwæk/

Arawak is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Arawak (aaakrw).

Definitions for Arawak

noun

  1. a member of an Indian people once widespread in the Antilles but now confined to northeastern South America.
  2. the language of the Arawaks.

Examples for Arawak

Only in Trinidad, where the Arawak was employed against the cannibal, was a settlement made possible.

I have stated that I am doubtful as to whether totemism exists in Arawak.

If the Arawak was impatient of control, the Carib was even more independent.

An Arawak term for house, referring specifically to a dwelling with an open shed attached.

His women had provision grounds like those of the Arawak, possibly because they came from that stock.

No longer was it the gentle Arawak whom they encountered, but the ferocious cannibal.

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