Definition of Tlingit

1. Noun. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska.

Generic synonyms: American Indian, Indian, Red Indian

2. Noun. The Na-Dene language spoken by the Tlingit.
Generic synonyms: Na-dene

Definition of Tlingit

1. Noun. an Indian people from the coastal regions of Alaska and British Columbia ¹

2. Proper noun. the language of these people ¹

3. Adjective. of, or relating to these people or their language ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tlingit

Titus Oates
Titus Vespasianus Augustus
Titusville
Tiu
Tivoli
Tiziano Vecellio
Tizona
Tizzoni's stain
Tjalling Charles Koopmans
Tjalling Koopmans
Tl
Tlahuica
Tlapanec
Tlaxcala
Tli polymerase
Tlingit
Tm
Tm cells
Tn
Tobacco Road
Tobago
Tobagonian
Tobey
Tobia fever
Tobiah
Tobias
Tobias George Smollett
Tobias Smollett
Tobias night
Tobin

Literary usage of Tlingit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"Field notes on the ethnology of the tlingit and Copper River Atna; 1949-1960. ... tlingit material taken primarily from Yakutat and Angoon; Copper River ..."

2. Early Civilization: An Introduction to Anthropology by Alexander Goldenweiser (1922)
"This culture is most clearly represented by the tlingit and Haida. ... The tlingit and Haida speaking tribes are hunters and fishermen. ..."

3. Russian Orthodox Church Of Alaska And The Aleutian Islands And Its Relation by Vyacheslav Ivanov (1998)
"51) that are accepted by modern linguistic comparison: see on tlingit tot ... 64 (the form given for tlingit by Wrangell appears close to Haida tc'aa'no). ..."

4. Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada by University of Toronto (1904)
"The Basketry of the tlingit. By GT Emmons. (Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. iii, Anthropology ii, pp. 229-278. ..."

5. The Coppers of the Northwest Coast Indians: Their Origin, Development, and by Carol F. Jopling (1989)
"tlingit Copper frontispiece 2. Map of Northwest Coast Area 2 3. ... tlingit Copper found nailed to mortuary pole over an opening containing a child's body ..."

6. The Coppers of the Northwest Coast Indians: Their Origin, Development, and ...by Carol F. Jopling by Carol F. Jopling (1989)
"tlingit Copper frontispiece 2. Map of Northwest Coast Area 2 3. ... tlingit Copper found nailed to mortuary pole over an opening containing a child's body ..."

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... excepting among the Haida, tlingit, and others of the north-west coast, where the great carved and painted totem poles, sometimes sixty feet in height, ..."

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