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COSTANOAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Costanoan mean?
• COSTANOAN (noun)
The noun COSTANOAN has 2 senses:
1. a member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay
2. a Penutian language spoken by the Costanoan
Familiarity information: COSTANOAN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Costanoan" is a kind of...):
Penutian (a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A Penutian language spoken by the Costanoan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Costanoan" is a kind of...):
Penutian (a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California)
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