Carib Definition

kărĭb
caribs
noun
A member of an Indian people that formerly inhabited the S West Indies and the N coast of South America, where some members of this people still remain.
Webster's New World
The family of languages of the Caribs.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Carib Indian
  • Caribbean language
pronoun

An American Indian people who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.

Wiktionary

Any of the languages of these people.

Wiktionary

(law, sciences) Abbreviation of Caribbean.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Carib

Noun

Singular:
Carib
Plural:
caribs

Origin of Carib

  • Spanish Caribe from earlier Carib karibna person, Carib

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Arawak.

    From Wiktionary

Carib Sentence Examples

  • Before this time Columbus had proposed an exchange of his Carib prisoners as slaves against live stock to be furnished to Haiti by Spanish merchants.

  • The population consists of a small percentage of whites of European descent, chiefly Spaniards, various tribes and settlements of Indians, largely of the Arawak and Carib families, and a large percentage of mestizos, or mixed bloods.

  • In the Carib province there are no mural remains, but the pottery, with its excessive onlaying, recalls Mexico and the jewellers of Chiriqui.

  • It is doubtful whether the Eme-sal was ever really a woman's language similar in character to that of the Carib women of the Antilles, or that of the Eskimo women of Greenland.

  • The tribes of the Caribbean seaboard, from Chiriqui to Goajira, are generally attached to the great Carib stock; those of the eastern plains show affinities with the neighbouring Brazilian races; those of the elevated Tuquerres district are of the Peruvian type; and the tribes of Antioquia, Cauca, Popayan and Neiva preserve characteristics more akin to those of the Aztecs than to, any other race.

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