ATAKAPA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Atakapa mean? 

• ATAKAPA (noun)
  The noun ATAKAPA has 2 senses:

1. a member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas

2. a language spoken by the Atakapa of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas

  Familiarity information: ATAKAPA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATAKAPA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Atakapa; Attacapan

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

Buffalo Indian; Plains Indian (a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A language spoken by the Atakapa of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Atakapa; Atakapan; Attacapa; Attacapan

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

American-Indian language; American Indian; Amerind; Amerindian language; Indian (any of the languages spoken by Amerindians)