a member of an Indian people now living principally in Paraguay.
a language belonging to the Tupi-Guarani family of languages and spoken by the Guarani Indians: the chief vernacular of Paraguay.
a member of a South American Indian people of Paraguay, S Brazil, and Bolivia
the language of this people, belonging to the Tupi-Guarani family; one of the official languages of Paraguay, along with Spanish
1940–45; < Spanish, after Guarani
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One example of such extreme deprivation cited in the report is the case of Ricardo, a member of the Guarani Indigenous community living outside Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia's largest city.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
The commission also extended an apology to the Guarani Kaiowá Indigenous people, who were also chased off their land in Mato Grosso do Sul state to make way for farms run by non-Indigenous Brazilians.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
"Demarcation is important, because it is not only a social issue, but also a spiritual, traditional and cultural issue," said Jurandir Karai Djekupe, a Guarani Mbya leader from the north of São Paulo.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2023
Representatives from the Terena and Guarani tribes joined the demonstration, some donning headdresses and black-and-red face paint.
From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2022
Inhabiting the southern part of the Bolivian plain are the Chiriguanos, a detached tribe of the Guarani race which drifted westward to the vicinity of the Andes long ago.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
Los Guaranies had a wonderful opportunity with a three-on-one in the 11th minute, but Brooks intervened with a well-timed and immaculate slide tackle in the penalty area.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2016
Its inhabitants were the docile Guaranies, who knew something of agriculture and in whose villages considerable stores of food were to be found.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.
The Guaranis of Paraguay did not differ, in this respect, from their congeners.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
Why these Guaranis had attacked us, it was hard to say, except that they had observed, when watching our movements, some persons of an enemy’s tribe in our company.
From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat
The Guaranis have of late years come under the influence of Christian Protestant missions.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
It is believed that they are distantly connected with the Tupis and Guaranis.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
It is still an open question whether the Tupis and Guaranis who inhabit the vast region between the Amazon and the Pampas of Buenos Ayres are affined to them.
From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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