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Definitions: Carib |
CaribNoun1. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles. 2. The family of languages spoken by the Carib people. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Carib" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Note: Carib \Car"ib\, noun; plural Caries. [See Cannibal.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: CaribSynonyms: Carib Indian (n), Caribbean language (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Carib |
| English words defined with "Carib": Carib Indian, carib wood, Caribbean language, Caribbee ♦ Dominica ♦ genus Sabinea ♦ Sabinea. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Carib": Alligator Pears. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Carib": Hurricane. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Carib Gold (1957) Quest of the Carib Canoe (2000) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The CARIB SEA waits for customers at Bud N' Mary's Marina.Credit: Fisheries. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Ethnic groups: African descent (66%), mixed (19%), West Indian (6%), Carib Indian (2%). (references) |
Guyana | Languages: English, Guyanese Creole, Amerindian languages (primarily Carib and Arawak). (references) | |
St. Kitts and Nevis | At the time of European discovery, the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis were inhabited by Carib Indians. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Dominica | Building permits are obtained from the Carib Council. (references) |
Dominica | Most Carib Indians engage in farming, fishing, and handicraft. (references) | |
Dominica | An estimated 25 percent of the Carib Indian population is believed to be in mixed marriages or relationships. (references) | |
Political Economy | Dominica | The principal human rights problems are occasional instances of use of excessive force by police, poor prison conditions, societal violence against women and children, instances of discrimination against indigenous Carib Indians, and societal discrimination against female Caribs in mixed marriages. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Carib" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carib" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Carib": Carib Indian ♦ carib wood. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Carib": Carib-enayas. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
carib | 54 | carib sea.com | 3 |
carib royal | 52 | royal carib cruise | 3 |
beer carib | 29 | carib fest | 3 |
carib pirate | 17 | carib el | 3 |
carib sports | 15 | carib negril | 3 |
carib indian | 12 | carib royale | 2 |
carib link | 9 | grand carib real | 2 |
carib sea | 8 | carib sprinter toyota | 2 |
carib news | 7 | carib sport book | 2 |
carib meaning | 6 | gran carib real | 2 |
carib toyota | 6 | carib quesnel theater | 2 |
carib link.net | 5 | aviation carib | 2 |
carib girl | 5 | carib club night | 2 |
carib theater | 5 | carib new york | 2 |
carib online.net | 5 | carib online | 2 |
carib club | 4 | carib storm | 2 |
air carib | 4 | carib language | 2 |
carib online.com | 3 | ||
carib language | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Carib"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | karib. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | Caribagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aribcay Mosca de la fruta (Carib Fruit fly). (various references) karibisk fruktfluga (Carib Fruit fly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Anastrepha suspensa. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Carib": caribe, caribes, caribou, caribous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: baric, rabic. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-r" | |
-1 letter: abri, carb, crab, crib. | |
-2 letters: air, arb, arc, bar, bra, cab, car, ria, rib. | |
-3 letters: ab, ai, ar, ba, bi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-r" | |
+1 letter: arabic, bardic, bicarb, caribe, fabric. | |
+2 letters: acerbic, aerobic, arabica, ascribe, baldric, barytic, bawdric, bicarbs, boracic, brachia, bracing, breccia, caliber, calibre, cambric, carabid, carabin, carbide, carbine, caribes, caribou, catbird, ciboria, corbina, fabrics, scribal, zebraic. | |
+3 letters: abrachia, abstrict, acerbity, aerobics, albicore, arabicas, ascorbic, ascribed, ascribes, bacillar, backfire, bacteria, bacterin, baldrick, baldrics, barbaric, barbican, barbicel, baryonic, bawdrics, beachier, bedchair, biracial, birdcage, birdcall, boracite, brachial, brachium, bracings, braciola, braciole, brackish, braconid, brainiac, branchia, brassica, brattice, breccial, breccias, brickbat, brisance, bronchia, cabrilla, cabriole, calibers, calibred, calibres, cambrics, carabids, carabine, carabins, carbamic, carbides, carbines, carbinol, carbolic, carbonic, caribous, catbirds, catbrier, choriamb, cinnabar, corbinas, crabbier, crabbily, crabbing, crabwise, cribbage, fireback, gabbroic, isobaric, lubrical, micawber, microbar, rabbinic, rabietic, rubrical, saprobic, scabbier, subacrid, subvicar, tribadic, tribasic, tribrach, vibrance, vibrancy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 69 62 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. .. -... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r i b |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0069 0062 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767847568 |
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