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mayan |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mayan \Ma"yan\, a. 1. Designating, or pertaining to an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz, Chiapas Tabasco, Campeche and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Mayan peoples are dark, short, and brachycephallic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops, were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics, used cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and places, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 a. d. 2. Of or pertaining to the Mayas. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Mayan n 1: a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy [syn: {Mayan}, {Maya}] 2: a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayan peoples [syn: {Maya}, {Mayan}, {Mayan language}]
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