american indian

Noun american indian has 2 senses

• american indian(n = noun.person) indian, red indian - a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived;
is a kind of amerindian, native american
has particulars: algonquian, algonquin, anasazi, athabascan, athabaskan, athapascan, athapaskan, maya, mayan, nahuatl, olmec, zapotec, zapotecan, buffalo indian, plains indian, chickasaw, coeur d'alene, creek, haida, hoka, hokan, iroquois, muskhogean, muskogean, penutian, pueblo, injun, red man, redskin, salish, shoshone, shoshoni, taracahitian, tlingit, wakashan, aleut, aleutian, eskimo, esquimau, inuit, paleo-american, paleo-amerind, paleo-indian, sannup, squaw
is a member of amerindian race, indian race

• american indian(n = noun.communication) american-indian language, amerind, amerindian language, indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians;
is a kind of natural language, tongue
has particulars: algonquian, algonquian language, algonquin, atakapa, atakapan, attacapa, attacapan, athabascan, athabaskan, athapascan, athapaskan, athapaskan language, muskhogean, muskhogean language, muskogean, muskogean language, na-dene, mosan, caddo, caddoan, caddoan language, iroquoian, iroquoian language, iroquois, kechua, kechuan, quechua, quechuan, quechuan language, maracan language, maraco, tupi-guarani, tupi-guarani language, arawak, arawakan, carib, caribbean language, uto-aztecan, uto-aztecan language, maya, mayan, mayan language, siouan, siouan language, tanoan, tanoan language, hoka, hokan, penutian