ANASAZI

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• ANASAZI (noun)
  The noun ANASAZI has 1 sense:

1. a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings

  Familiarity information: ANASAZI used as a noun is very rare.

• ANASAZI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Anasazi" is a kind of...):

Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Anasazi"):

cliff dweller (a member of the Anasazi people living in the southwestern United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on ledges in the sides of caves)