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–noun, plural -ibs, (especially collectively

) -ib. for 1.

1.	a member of a group of Indian peoples formerly dominant through the Lesser Antilles, now found in small numbers in a few areas of the West Indies and in parts of Central America and northeastern South America.

2.	the family of languages spoken by the Caribs.

[Origin: 1545–55; < Sp caribe < Arawak

]

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n. pl. Carib or Car·ibs

also Car·i·ban (kār'ə-bən, kə-rē'bən) A member of a group of American Indian peoples of northern South America, the Lesser Antilles, and the eastern coast of Central America.
Any of the languages of the Carib.

[Spanish Caribe, from earlier Carib karibna, person, Carib.]

Car'ib adj.

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carib
noun
1.	a member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles
2.	the family of languages spoken by the Carib

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Car"ib\, n.; pl. Caries. [See Cannibal.] (Ethol.) A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of South America, north of the Amazon, and formerly most of the West India islands.

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