Arawak
noun
a member of an Indian people once widespread in the Antilles but now living primarily in coastal northeastern South America.
Arawaks
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pluralof Arawak.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Some contemporary Indigenous groups, including the Arawaks and Piaroa, descend from these ancient societies.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 3, 2024
Their name derived from the Spanish word for “wild,” and they had been imported from Africa to replace the indigenous people, the Arawaks, nearly all of whom had been killed by the Spanish.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
We are a people, the Arawaks and Taínos might have said, even as they died trying to prove it.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2017
The Garífuna are descendants of West Africans who were shipwrecked in 1635 off the coast of St. Vincent, where they intermarried with the indigenous Arawaks and Caribs.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2015
We remember Columbus and the Arawaks, Cortes and the Aztecs, even the fate of the Tlingit in the generations after La Perouse.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
