Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun athabaskan

2 senses of athabaskan

Sense 1
Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan -- (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska)
       => Indian, American Indian, Red Indian -- (a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived)

Sense 2
Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan, Athapaskan language -- (a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir))
       => Amerind, Amerindian language, American-Indian language, American Indian, Indian -- (any of the languages spoken by Amerindians)