Native American meaning: definition, quotations

Native American

nounalso spelled native American

A member of some Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

An Indigenous person of the contiguous United States.

Dated Alternative letter-case form of native American

Synonyms: American Indian, Amerind, Amerindian, First American, Indian, Indigenous American, Indigenous North American, Injun, injun, Native American, NDN, Red Indian, red man, redman, redskin
Hypernyms: aboriginal, aborigine, autochthon, indigene, Native, native, person, person of color, POC
Hyponyms: 167 terms
Abenaki, Alabama, Apache, Arapaho, Arikara, Assiniboine, Atakapa, Awaswas, Bannock, Beothuk, Cahokia, Cahuilla, Catawba, Cayuse, Chehalis, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Chilcotin, Chinook, Chipewyan, Chippewa, Chiricahua, Choctaw, Chʼortiʼ, Chumash, Cochiti, Cocopah, Coeur d'Alene, Comanche, Coushatta, Cree, Creek, Crow, Cupeño, Cusabo, Dakota, Delaware, Dena'ina, Edisto, Erie, Guale, Haida, Haudenosaunee, Hia C-ed O'odham, Hidatsa, Hitchiti, Ho-Chunk, Hopi, Hualapai, Hupa, Illinois, Iowa, Iroquois, Isleta, Iswa, Jemez, Kansa, Karkin, Karuk, Kaska, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Klamath, Koyukon, Ktunaxa, Kwakwaka'wakw, Lakota, Lenape, Lillooet, Maidu, Makah, Mandan, Maricopa, Massachusett, Menominee, Meskwaki, Mi'kmaq, Miwok, Modoc, Mohave, Mohawk, Mono, Montagnais, Muskogee, Nambé, Nanticoke, Narragansett, Naskapi, Natchez, Navajo, Nez Perce, Nootka, Nuu-chah-nulth, Ohlone, Ojibwe, Okanagan, Omaha, Oneida, O'odham, Osage, Otoe, Ottawa, Ouachita, Paiute, Papago, Pawnee, Penobscot, Pensacola, Peoria, Picuris, Pima, Pojoaque, Pomo, Ponca, Potawatomi, Powhatan, Puebloan, Pueblo Indian, Quapaw, Quileute, Quinault, Rumsen, Sakonnet, Salinan, Salish, Sandia, Sauk, Sekani, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Shinnecock, Shoshone, Shuswap, Siletz, Sioux, Skidi, Snoqualmie, Spokane, Sts'Ailes, Susquehannock, Syilx, Tahltan, Tamaroa, Tataviam, Tewa, Tillamook, Tlingit, Tohono O'odham, Tolowa, Tongva, Tonkawa, Tsimshian, Tübatulabal, Tuscarora, Umatilla, Ute, Walla Walla, Wanapum, Wiyot, Wyandot, Yakima, Yamasee, Yuchi, Yurok, Zuni
Holonyms: First Nations

Native American

adj

Of the American Indians.

Derived terms: Native American Day, Native Americanesque, Native American myopathy
Related terms: First Nations, First Peoples, American Indian, Amerindian, Amerind, Indian, Euro-American

native American

noun

Dated A resident of the United States who is not an immigrant.

His name, as given on the records, was Joe Slater, or Slaader, and his appearance was that of the typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region; one of those strange, repellent scions of a primitive colonial peasant stock whose isolation for nearly three centuries in the hilly fastnesses of a little-travelled countryside has caused them to sink to a kind of barbaric degeneracy, […] their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people.1919, H. P. Lovecraft, Beyond the Wall of Sleep: