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Aztec   /ˈæztˌɛk/   Listen
Aztec

noun
1.
A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.



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"Aztec" Quotes from Famous Books



... American ethnology, past and to come, I will here touch upon at a venture. As to our aboriginal or Indian population—the Aztec in the South, and many a tribe in the North and West—I know it seems to be agreed that they must gradually dwindle as time rolls on, and in a few generations more leave only a reminiscence, a blank. But I am not at all clear about that. As America, from ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman
... expedition that put the finishing touch to Philip Steele. He came back a big hearted, clear minded young fellow, as bronzed as an Aztec—a hater of cities and the hothouse varieties of pleasure to which he had been born, and as far removed from anticipation of his father's millions as though they had never been. He possessed a fortune in ...
— Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • James Oliver Curwood


Words linked to "Aztec" :   Nahuatl


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