Dravidian
[drə'vidiən]
Definition
(noun.) a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka.
(noun.) a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them).
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
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Definition
n. of the non-Aryan stock to which the Tamil Telugu Canarese and Malayālam speaking peoples of Southern India belong: of the languages of these races.
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Examples
- India, a galaxy of contrasted races, religions, and cultures, Dravidian, Mongolian, and Aryan, became a nation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They revived and changed this Dravidian civilization much as the Greeks did the ?gean or the Semites the Sumerian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Johnston, to the Basque-Caucasian-Dravidian (! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Sudras are represented as a previous wave of northern conquerors, and the Pariahs are the original Dravidian inhabitants of India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Whether they were dark whites of Iberian or Dravidian affinities is less certainly to be denied. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They found a civilization already scattered over India, the Dravidian civilization. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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