wakashan

1. 1.

   a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language

   BroaderAmerindian

   NarrowerKwakiutlNootka
2. 2.

   a family of North American Indian languages of British Columbia and Washington

   SynonymsWakashan language

   BroaderMosan

   NarrowerKwakiutlNootka

Other forms of wakashan

plural

wakashans·

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 wakashan

What does wakashan mean?

wakashan means "a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wakashan?

wakashan has 3 syllables: wa-ka-shan. The stress falls on "wa".

What is another word for wakashan?

Close synonyms include Wakashan language. 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 wakashan a common word?

wakashan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.