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单词 Chichimec
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Definition of Chichimec in English:

Chichimec

nounPlural ChichimecsˌtʃiːtʃɪˈmɛkˈCHēCHəˌmek
  • 1A member of a group of indigenous peoples, including the Toltecs and the Aztecs, dominant in central Mexico from the 10th to the 16th centuries.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These the Chichimecs considered to be descended from the Toltecs of Tollan, the ‘Place of the Reeds,’ the fabled central Mexican city, a place of divine creation and the cradle of human civilization.
    • According to Clavijero the Toltecs came to Mexico about A.D.648, the Chichimecs in 1170, and the Aztecs in 1196.
    • The painter delicately yet pointedly marks Quinatzin's status by assigning each of his interlocutors only one speech scroll, in contrast to the Chichimec leader's three.
    • At top center, a cave rendered in a cutaway view within its mountain matrix shelters a Chichimec family.
    • No satisfactory explanation for this collapse has been offered, although sacking by rival Chichimecs is one possibility.
  • 2mass noun A Uto-Aztecan language of the Chichimec, with some 5,000 surviving speakers.

Origin

Spanish, from Nahuatl.

 
 

Definition of Chichimec in US English:

Chichimec

nounˈCHēCHəˌmek
  • 1A member of a group of indigenous peoples, including the Toltecs and the Aztecs, dominant in central Mexico from the 10th to the 16th centuries.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • No satisfactory explanation for this collapse has been offered, although sacking by rival Chichimecs is one possibility.
    • At top center, a cave rendered in a cutaway view within its mountain matrix shelters a Chichimec family.
    • The painter delicately yet pointedly marks Quinatzin's status by assigning each of his interlocutors only one speech scroll, in contrast to the Chichimec leader's three.
    • These the Chichimecs considered to be descended from the Toltecs of Tollan, the ‘Place of the Reeds,’ the fabled central Mexican city, a place of divine creation and the cradle of human civilization.
    • According to Clavijero the Toltecs came to Mexico about A.D.648, the Chichimecs in 1170, and the Aztecs in 1196.
  • 2The Uto-Aztecan language of the Chichimec.

Origin

Spanish, from Nahuatl.

 
 
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