Meanings
plural Amerinds
- An American Indian.
The cultural hiatus associated with the Pine Pollen Zone suggests that Amerinds may have avoided the area.
- not comparablehuman sciencesOf or relating to a hypothetical, largely discredited higher-level language family including all of the indigenous languages of the Americas, excluding those that belong to Eskimo-Aleut or Na-Dene.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages
nounany of the languages spoken by Amerindians
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Blend of American + Indian or possibly blend of American + indigenous. First appears c. 1899 in the publication American Anthropologist.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Māori Kiriwhero
- Kiriwheroan American Indian
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Amerind. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Amerind
“Amerind.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Amerind. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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