Carib
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Carib /ˈkarɪb/
▶noun
- 1 a member of an indigenous South American people living mainly in coastal regions of French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, and Venezuela.
- 2 the language of the Carib.
■ the Cariban family of languages.
- 3 (also Island Carib) an unrelated Arawakan language, now extinct, formerly spoken in the Lesser Antilles.
– origin from Sp. caribe, from Haitian Creole.
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