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INCA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s

Synonyms:

Inca; Inka

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Instance hypernyms:

community (a group of people living in a particular local area)

Domain region:

Peru; Republic of Peru (a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru

Synonyms:

Inca; Incan; Inka

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Inca" is a kind of...):

Kechua; Quechua (a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Inca" is a kind of...):

ruler; swayer (a person who rules or commands)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Inca"):

Huayna Capac (the Incan ruler under whom the Incan empire reached its widest extent (died in 1525))

Credits