All Words Glossary Glossary of People Terms beginning with letter A Browse the People Glossary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Abenaki proper noun A complex of dialects of one of the Eastern Algonquian languages, originally spoken in what is now Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Abenaki proper noun A complex of dialects of one of the Eastern Algonquian languages, originally spoken in what is now Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Abkhaz noun (pl=Abkhaz) A person who is from Abkhazia. proper noun (wikipedia, Abkhaz language) A Northwest Caucasian language spoken in Abkhazia. Abkhazian noun A person who is from Abkhazia. proper noun The Abkhaz language, spoken in Abkhazia. adjective Of or pertaining to Abkhazia. Acadian noun A native of Acadie. adjective Of or pertaining to Acadie Note: The 1913 Webster also used this in reference to Nova Scotia. Quotations farmers - Longfellow Acadian noun A native of Acadie. adjective Of or pertaining to Acadie Note: The 1913 Webster also used this in reference to Nova Scotia. Quotations farmers - Longfellow Acadian noun A native of Acadie. adjective Of or pertaining to Acadie Note: The 1913 Webster also used this in reference to Nova Scotia. Quotations farmers - Longfellow Achinese proper noun A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. AF initialism Air Force Afar proper noun A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. The people speaking this language and residing in these regions. A region in Ethiopia. Afar proper noun A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. The people speaking this language and residing in these regions. A region in Ethiopia. Afghan noun A person from Afghanistan or of Afghan descent. A person of Pashtun ethnicity or of Pashtun descent. proper noun Ethnic Pashtun Pashto, a language primarily spoken in southern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Afghanistan. Of, from, or pertaining to the Pashtun ethnic community. Afghan noun A person from Afghanistan or of Afghan descent. A person of Pashtun ethnicity or of Pashtun descent. proper noun Ethnic Pashtun Pashto, a language primarily spoken in southern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Afghanistan. Of, from, or pertaining to the Pashtun ethnic community. Afghan noun A person from Afghanistan or of Afghan descent. A person of Pashtun ethnicity or of Pashtun descent. proper noun Ethnic Pashtun Pashto, a language primarily spoken in southern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Afghanistan. Of, from, or pertaining to the Pashtun ethnic community. afghani noun (wikipedia, Afghan afghani) A monetary currency being used in Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul. afghani noun (wikipedia, Afghan afghani) A monetary currency being used in Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul. Africa proper noun The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica. It holds the following countries: Central Africa Central African Republic Chad Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Eastern Africa Burundi Comoros Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Seychelles Rwanda Somalia " Somaliland " Puntland Tanzania Uganda Northern Africa Algeria Ceuta Egypt Libya Mauritania Melilla Morocco Sudan Tunisia Western Sahara Southern Africa Angola Botswana Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Reunion Swaziland South Africa Zambia Zimbabwe Western Africa Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Cape Verde Cí´te d'Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Togo African noun A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race. adjective Of or pertaining to Africa. African-American noun A black American. (nonstandard) Any black person. adjective (pos=African-American) (of a person) American and black. (nonstandard, of a person) Black. Of or pertaining to the culture of African American people. Afrikaans proper noun A Germanic language descending from Dutch; the primary language of the descendants of Dutch and other European settlers, as well as many mixed-race (e.g. Rehoboth Baster) living in South Africa and in Namibia. Also, one of the eleven official languages of South Africa and until 1990 one of three official languages of Namibia. A term sometimes used of people from South Africa and Namibia (who speak Afrikaans), more properly called "Afrikaans people" or Afrikaners. adjective Of or pertaining to the Afrikaans language. Afrikaner noun A member of an ethnic group of northwestern European ancestry and associated with southern Africa and the Afrikaans language. A breed of cattle, aka Afrikander. Afro-American proper noun also African-American A resident of the United States who is of African heritage. adjective also African-American Of African American heritage or culture Afroasiatic adjective (pos=Afro-, AfroAsiatic?, asiatic, -) Of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Omotic, Cushitic, and Chadic languages. Ainu proper noun An ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The endangered language spoken by the Ainu ethnic group, generally considered a language isolate with no known relation to other languages. adjective Of or pertaining to the Ainu ethnic group or their language. Akan proper noun A people who inhabit Ghana and Cí´te d'Ivoire. The Niger-Congo language spoken by these people. A group of languages spoken in Ghana. A volcano in Hokkaido, Japan. adjective Of or pertaining to the Akan people. Of or pertaining to the Akan language and other related languages. akkad nounAkkad One of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia (northern Babylonia). Also called Agade. A city in and the capital of this kingdom, one of the three cities of Nimrod's kingdom. Gen. 10:10.       Akkadian proper noun The now extinct Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, formerly used as an international language of diplomacy. A Semitic inhabitant of the region of Mesopotamia near the city of Akkad. adjective Of or pertaining to the Akkadian language of ancient Mesopotamia. Of or pertaining to the Akkadian empire, Empire. AL abbreviation Alabama, a state of the United States of America. (baseball) The American League Albanian noun A person from Albania or of Albanian descent. proper noun The language spoken by the Albanian people, primarily spoken in Albania. (ISO language codes: alb/sqi/sq) adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Albania, the Albanian people or the Albanian language. Alemannic noun The language, closely related to German, spoken in certain parts of South Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France. In several cantons in Switzerland it is an official language. Immigrants who wish to become citizens of these cantons must pass an exam in this dialect, called locally "Schwyzerdí¼tsch". Algonkin proper noun Variant spelling of Algonquin. Algonquian adjective Relating to a group of North American languages. Algonquin noun A member of an aboriginal North American people closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe, and living mainly in Quebec. proper noun The language spoken by the Algonquins, a transitional language between Ojibwe and Abenaki. Altaic adjective Of or pertaining to a group of languages that includes the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Manchusic, Japanese and Korean languages. The most familiar modern languages of this group include Turkish, Mongolian, Japanese and Korean. American English proper noun A dialect of the English language that is chiefly spoken in the United States. Compare British English. An orthography of the English language that is chiefly used in the United States. Compare Commonwealth English. American Indian proper noun A member of the indigenous peoples of America, especially North America. Amerind noun a Native American, an American Indian Amharic proper noun A Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. Amoy proper noun a city, now officially known as Xiamen, in southern China the Jiulong Jiang river The w:Amoy (linguistics), Amoy language/dialect anglo prefix A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish. Anglo-French proper noun variant, Variant of Anglo-Norman. adjective Of or pertaining to England and France or the people thereof. Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Norman dialect. Anglo-Latin proper noun medieval, Medieval Latin as used in England. Anglo-Norman proper noun A Norman who settled in England after the Norman Conquest, or a descendant of one. The dialect of Old French spoken by these Normans, or the form of this dialect used in English law until the 17th century. adjective (pos=Anglo-Norman, -) Pertaining to the period of Norman rule of England, 1066"1154. Pertaining to Norman in England after the Norman Conquest. Relating to their dialect. Anglo-Saxon proper noun The ancestor language of modern English, also called Old English, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD. The language is a more inflected language, maintaining strong and weak verbs, nouns, and adjectives. It has a clearly marked subjunctive mood, and has five cases of nouns and adjectives. Germanic peoples inhabiting medií¦val England. A person of British or North European descent. adjective Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language. Related to nations which speak primarily English; especially United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia. (economics) Favouring a liberal free market economy. Descended from white English or North European settlers. Apache proper noun Any of several Athabascan-speaking peoples of the American Southwest excluding Navajo, i.e. Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, or Western Apache. A person belonging to an Apache people. The languages of the Apache peoples. A Parisian gangster. An open source HTTP server. The town of Apache, Oklahoma (zipcode 73006) A military helicopter Arab proper noun A person of Arab origin. A breed of horse. adjective of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations Arabian noun A native of Arabia. An Arabian horse. adjective related to Arabia Arabic proper noun A major Semitic language originating from the Arabian peninsula, and now spoken natively (in various spoken dialects, all sharing a single highly conservative standardized literary form) throughout large sections of the Middle East and North Africa. (ISO abbreviations: ar, ara) The Aramaic-derived alphabet used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others. adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Arab country, countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective). Aragonese noun (pl=Aragonese) A person from Aragon. proper noun The language of Aragon, nowadays only spoken as a mother tongue by a few thousand people in some valleys of the Pyrenees. The Spanish language spoken in Aragon when influenced by Aragonese traits. adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Aragon, the Aragonese people or the Aragonese language. Aramaic proper noun (plural: Aramaics) A language in the Semitic language group: The language of the Aramaeans from the tenth century BC. The language of the administration in the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian empires from the seventh to fourth centuries BC. The language of portions of the Hebrew Bible, mainly the books of Ezra and Daniel. The language of Jesus of Nazareth. The language of Jewish targums, midrash and the Talmuds. The liturgical language of various Christian churchs: often called Syriac. The liturgical language of the Mandaeans: usually called Mandaic. adjective Referring to the Aramaic language, alphabet, culture or poetry. Arapaho noun (pl=Arapaho) A member of the Arapaho people proper noun A Native American people of Wyoming and Oklahoma. The Algonquian language of this people. Arcadian noun An inhabitant of ancient Arcadia. An ideal rustic. adjective Pertaining to ancient Arcadia. Ideally rustic. ARM initialism accelerated reply mail: a service of the United States Postal Service adjustable rate mortgage Armenian noun A person from Armenia or of Armenian descent. proper noun The language of Armenia and the Armenian people. adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Armenia, the Armenian people, the Armenian language, or the Armenian alphabet. Arunta proper noun An aboriginal language of Australia Aryan noun (context, theosophy, Germanic mysticism, nazism) A member of an (alleged) master race comprised of non-Jewish Caucasians, especially those of Nordic or Germanic descent. 1925"26, w:Adolf Hitler, Adolf Hitler, w:Mein Kampf, Mein Kampf, translation from German to English by James Murphy, 1939 : This short sketch of the changes that take place among those races that are only the depositories of a culture also furnishes a picture of the development and the activity and the disappearance of those who are the true founders of culture on this earth, namely the Aryans themselves. (context, colloquial, neo-Nazi or white supremacist ideology) A person of Caucasian ethnicity; a white non-Jew. 2001, w:Robert J. Sternberg, Robert J. Sternberg, w:James C. Kaufman, James C. Kaufman, The Evolution of Intelligence, http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN080583267X&id=xgQ1MKljVuIC&pg=RA1-PA300&lpg=RA1-PA300&ots=a6fyeWdqS-&dq=Aryan+supremacist&sig=JtN37BGr1UJCEoVuV20zeZBXT60 Page 300 : One transmission advantage may have been that espousing -supremacist and overtly Nazi ideology could have been a roundabout way of announcing, &hellip; 2002, w:David R. Goldfield, David R. Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History, http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0807129607&id=7niy-coNLLcC&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263&ots=YKDnkg0JmM&dq=Aryan+supremacist&sig=vTfH03uhh_OR6k57KCWbr6KMNEk page 263 : The point is not that southern Republicans are edging toward -supremacist views but that the rhetoric of their campaigns and some of their political " (context, by extension, primarily US, colloquial, euphemistic) A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense. 2004, w:John Lawton, John Lawton, Bluffing Mr. Churchill : Cal tried to think of words that would convey Wolfgang Stahl to the ears and hands of a woman who"d never seen him and never, until now, had to imagine him. : " : "Why not . . . why not think of your chap as a type? Tell me what type you"d sort of put him into." : "Sort of?" : "You know . . . roughly." : "He"s an ." : "Ah, one of those, eh? Odd when you think about it. I mean. How did they arrive at blue-eyed blonds as a racial type? Hitler"s short and dark and looks like Charlie Chaplin. Goebbels is short and ugly and looks like a rat. And as for Goering " well is that what Billy Bunter grew up to be?" (context, now, _, rare) An Indo-Iranian. (context, now, _, rare) An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European. 1905, w:Rossiter Johnson, Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., chief editor, The Great Events by Famous Historians, volume IV : We have seen that when the Goths first entered Roman territory they were driven on by a vast migration of the Asiatic Huns. These wild and hideous tribes then " appeared upon the Rhine, and in enormous numbers penetrated Gaul. No people had yet understood them, none had even checked their career. The white races seemed helpless against this "yellow peril", this "Scourge of God", as Attila was called. Goths and Romans and all the varied tribes which were ranging in perturbed whirl through unhappy Gaul laid aside their lesser enmities and met in common cause against this terrible invader. The battle of Chí¢lons, 451, was the most tremendous struggle in which Turanian was ever matched against , the one huge bid of the stagnant, unprogressive races, for earth"s mastery. (context, ethnography, now, _, obsolete, in 19th century ethnography) A subdivision of the Caucasian race, which comprised the Aryans, the Semites, and the Hamites, or the accompanying linguistic subdivision. 1892, w:Charles Morris, Charles Morris, The Aryan Race: Its Origins and Its Achievements : The Caucasian race includes two sub-races, " the Xantho-chroic and Melanochroic of Huxley. The seat of this race is Europe, northern Africa, and southwestern Asia, its linguistic division being into Aryans, Semites, and Hamites. 1900, w:Frank Moore Colby, Frank Moore Colby, Outlines of General History : The surest principle of classification is based on language, but the results must be tested by a study of the physical characteristics of the various races. According to this method of classification, the races of the world may be divided as follows: Aryan, Semitic, Hamitic, Turanian, Negroid. The name Caucasian is generally applied to the first three divisions, " Aryans, Semites, and Hamites. Aryan. " This includes the ancient Hindus " the Persians, Greeks, Italians, Celts, Teutons, and Slavs. adjective Pertaining, in racial theory, theories, to the (alleged) Aryan master race. 1925"26, w:Adolf Hitler, Adolf Hitler, w:Mein Kampf, Mein Kampf, translation from German to English by James Murphy, 1939 : Look at the ravages from which our people are suffering daily as a result of being contaminated with Jewish blood. Bear in mind the fact that this poisonous contamination can be eliminated from the national body only after centuries, or perhaps never. Think further of how the process of racial decomposition is debasing and in some cases even destroying the fundamental qualities of our German people, so that our cultural creativeness as a nation is gradually becoming impotent and we are running the danger, at least in our great cities, of falling to the level where Southern Italy is to-day. (context, colloquial, neo-Nazi or white supremacist ideology) Pertaining to the Caucasian ethnicity. 2003, w:Kathleen M. Blee, Kathleen M. Blee, Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement, http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0520240553&id=O8rj6BaBIecC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&ots=Zig3JprLGu&dq=Aryan+neo-Nazi&sig=lBVGVZN-QKTBZyDA6WRg_Id2hcQ page 172 : Neo-Nazis use Nordic religions to fashion a more noble past and a modern Pan- community. Symbols from and references to ancient spirituality pepper neo-Nazi literature. (context, US, colloquial, euphemistic) Pertaining to Caucasian racists or their organisations, theories, etc. 2006, w:Margaret Kleffner Nydell, Margaret Kleffner Nydell, Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times, Intercultural Press, http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=1931930252, ISBN 1931930252, page 106 Imagine our outrage if the foreign press depicted groups as representing mainstream Christianity. Of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages. 1872-79: John Beames, A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Languages of India: to wit, Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya and Bangall :With all due deference to the opinions of scholars, it may be urged that much of this elaborate development arose in an age when the speech of the people had wandered very far away from the classical type. Even if it were not so, even if there ever were a time when the peasant used poly-syllabic desideratives, and was familiar with multiform aorists, it is clear that he began to satisfy himself with a simpler system at a very distant epoch, for the range of forms in Pali and the other Prakrits is far narrower than in classical Sanskrit. (context, now, _, rare) Of or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages. 1905, w:Rossiter Johnson, Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., chief editor, The Great Events by Famous Historians, volume IV : Who were these Teutons? Rome knew them only vaguely as wild tribes dwelling in the gloom of the great forest wilderness. In reality they were but the vanguard of vast races of human beings who through ages had been slowly populating all Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. Beyond the Teutons were other Aryans, the Slavs. Beyond these were vague non- races like the Huns. " <!-- are these durable? "To give just one illuminating illustration, we might mention the nearly universal and quite uncritical acceptance by both Indian politicians and the generality of national and international academics, of the 19th Century myth of the " invasion of Dravidian India" and of the arbitrary classification of the population into and Dravidian ethnic types. Neo-Colonial Captive Minds." " Devan Nair (former President of Singapore) http:www.infinityfoundation.com/ECITneocolonialframe.htm. "What little we know of the Vedic Age comes from the Rig-Veda. By the time the oral tradition of the religion was comitted to Sanskrit, however, some of the gods mentioned had already begun to lose their importance. Nevertheless, The Rig-Veda represented a blend of beliefs held by several tribes." http://www.indialife.com/History/vedas.htm "One of the main ideas used to interpret and generally devalue the ancient history of India is the theory of the invasion. According to this account, India was invaded and conquered by nomadic light-skinned Indo-European tribes from Central Asia around 1500-100 BC, who overthrew an earlier and more advanced dark-skinned Dravidian civilization from which they took most of what later became Hindu culture. This so-called pre- civilization is said to be evidenced by the large urban ruins of what has been called the "Indus valley culture" (as most of its initial sites were on the Indus river). The war between the powers of light and darkness, a prevalent idea in ancient Vedic scriptures, was thus interpreted to refer to this war between light and dark skinned peoples. The invasion theory thus turned the "Vedas", the original scriptures of ancient India and the Indo-Aryans, into little more than primitive poems of uncivilized plunderers." http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/ancient/aryan/aryan_frawley.html --> AS abbreviation Anglo-Saxon Advanced Supplementary (neurology) Asperger's Syndrome (geography) American Samoa AS. abbreviation Webster 1913 abbreviation for Anglo Saxon (dontlinkhere)       asiatic noun Asian adjective Asian Assamese noun Language spoken in the state of Assam, India Assyrian noun A person who resided in the ancient region on the Upper Tigris river, with capital city of Assur. A citizen of an ancient nation and empire, including the northern half of Mesopotamia, with capital city of Nineveh. adjective Of or pertaining to the ancient region on the Upper Tigris river, with capital city of Assur. Of or pertaining to the ancient nation and empire, including the northern half of Mesopotamia, with capital city of Nineveh. austral noun A form of currency in Argentina. adjective Of, relating to, or coming from the south. Australian noun (Australians) A person from Australia or of Australian descent. adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages. Austronesian noun Any of a family of languages from Austronesia, including Formosan, Indonesian, Malay, Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian subfamilies adjective Of or pertaining to, Austronesia. Avestan proper noun An ancient language of eastern Iran in which the sacred Zoroastrian writings are written. adjective Of or pertaining to Avesta or Avestan. Aymara proper noun An indigenous people and language of South America. Azerbaijani noun a person from Azerbaijan or of Azerbaijani descent. language of Azerbaijan, see Azeri. adjective of, from, or pertaining to Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani people or the Azerbaijani language. Aztec noun (pl=Aztecs or ) A Mexica. 1994: w:Diego Durí¡n, Diego Durí¡n, Doris Heyden (translator), The History of the Indies of New Spain :The lords of Tlatelolco were greatly angered over this and said, one to another, "These Aztecs believe that we are of an alien lineage. Do they not know that we are Aztecs like them? :(= los seí~+mn~ores de Tlatelulco, recibieron mucho enojo y pesadumbre, y dixeron entre sí­ mesmos: estos mexicanos imaginan que nosotros somos de diferente generacion quellos; no saben que somo mexicanos) 1867 edition A Nahua. 1989: Elizabeth Hill Boone, Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe :Although united culturally, the Aztecs thought of themselves in terms of their particular tribal affiliations: as Mexica, Tetzcoca, Culhua, Tepaneca, etc. The Nahuatl language. adjective Of or pertaining to the Mexica people. Of or pertaining to the Nahuas. Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language. Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z  Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:   Translate Into: Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 5 10 15 20 25 50 100 250 500 results per page.

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