NAHUATL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nahuatl mean? 

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

1. a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico

2. the Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Nahuatl

  Familiarity information: NAHUATL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAHUATL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Nahuatl" 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 "Nahuatl"):

Aztec (a member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519)

Toltec (a member of the Nahuatl speaking people of central and southern Mexico)

Holonyms ("Nahuatl" is a member of...):

federation of tribes; tribe (a federation (as of American Indians))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Nahuatl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

Uto-Aztecan; Uto-Aztecan language (a family of American Indian languages)