TLINGIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tlingit mean? 

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

1. a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska

2. the Na-Dene language spoken by the Tlingit

  Familiarity information: TLINGIT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TLINGIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Na-Dene language spoken by the Tlingit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

Na-Dene (a family of North American Indian languages)

 Context examples 

The concept refers to population subgroups such as Eskimos, Aleuts, Inupiat, Yupik, Alutiiq, Egegik,and Pribilovian, Alaskan Athabascan, Tlingit, and Haida.

(Alaska Native, NCI Thesaurus)