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Arawak

[ US /ˈɑɹɑˌwɑk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America
  2. a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America

How To Use Arawak In A Sentence

  • At a time when cities such as George Town and Malacca are winning international recognition for their preservation of heritage sections of their cities, the Sarawak government's retrogressive efforts to wipe out remaining vestiges of Kuching's architectural heritage are incomprehensible. Undefined
  • Practically the whole of the West Indies were occupied by tribes of two linguistic stocks, the earlier of the Arawakan origin, the more recent being Cariban invaders from the northern coast of South The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • Columbia, speaking dialects of the Arawakan stock. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • One great South American stock — the Arawakan — after occupying the Antilles, completed the chain of connection by planting The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • The Spaniards also let loose a big dog on shore which chased the terrified Arawaks and bit several of them savagely.
  • Accommodation along Shell Beach is limited to a single camp run by an Arawak family (with a full complement of pet dogs, parrots, and tortoises).
  • A scattering of Arawak Indian villages once surrounded Jamaica’s second largest and most visited city, but now high-rise hotels and restaurants dominate the coastal landscape.
  • Hex pretends to be a houngan, but he's actually an Arawak.
  • The vast 17-acre site is populated with members of the Sarawak's various ethnic groups and their longhouses.
  • The Guardian-Mother, attended by the Blanche, had conveyed the tourists, in their voyage all over the world, to Sarawak, the capital of a rajahship on the north-western coast of the island of Borneo. Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
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