Thesaurus:Native American
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English
Noun
Sense: a member of the indigenous peoples of North America
Synonyms
- American Indian
- Amerind (rare)
- Amerindian (chiefly Latin America)
- First American
- Indian (misnomer)
- Indigenous American
- Indigenous North American
- Injun (offensive, dated)
- injun (offensive, dated)
- Native American
- NDN (slang)
- Red Indian (offensive, dated)
- red man (now offensive, dated)
- redman (now offensive, dated)
- redskin (now offensive, dated)
Hyponyms
Hypernyms
Holonyms
- First Nations (Canada)
Further reading
- “Indian” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.