athabaskan

1. 1.

   a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska

   SynonymsAthapaskanAthapascanAthabascan

   BroaderAmerindian

   NarrowerApacheChipewyanHupaMattoleNavaho
2. 2.

   a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)

   SynonymsAthapaskanAthapascanAthabascanAthapaskan language

   BroaderAmerind

   NarrowerApacheNavahoHupaMattoleChipewyan

   United States

Other forms of athabaskan

plural

athabaskans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about athabaskan

What does athabaskan mean?

athabaskan means "a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in athabaskan?

athabaskan has 4 syllables: a-tha-ba-skan. The stress falls on "tha".

What is another word for athabaskan?

Close synonyms include Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabascan, Athapaskan, Athapascan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is athabaskan a common word?

athabaskan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.