south american

1. 1.

   a native or inhabitant of South America

   BroaderAmerican

   NarrowerArgentinianBolivianBrazilianTupiGuaraniMaracoChileanColombianEcuadorianSalvadoran

   Part ofSouth America

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to or characteristic of the continent or countries of South America or their peoples

Questions about south american

What does south american mean?

south american means "a native or inhabitant of South America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is south american a common word?

south american 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.