单词 | Arawak |
释义 | Arawak (once / 67156 pages) n WORD FAMILY Arawak: Arawaks USAGE EXAMPLESAny time these Arawak slaves failed to meet Columbus’ mining quotas, “their hands were cut off and they bled to death.” Salon(Oct 10, 2016) Mentore said that indigenous Arawak petroglyphs and other evidence of pre-Columbian settlement have been as far north as Cuba, Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. The Guardian(Jun 03, 2016) We remember Columbus and the Arawaks, Cortes and the Aztecs, even the fate of the Tlingit in the generations after La Perouse. Carl Sagan, Cosmos(1980) 1n a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America Syn|Hyper Arawakan Amerindian, Native American any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived 2n a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America Syn|Hyper Arawakan American Indian, American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, Indian any of the languages spoken by Amerindians |
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