Mayan : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Mayan	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Mayan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Mayan n a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy; "Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar" Synonym(s): Mayan, Maya a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya Synonym(s): Maya, Mayan, Mayan language
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mayan \Ma"yan\, a. 1. Designating, or pertaining to, an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Mayan peoples are dark, short, and brachycephallic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops, were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics, used cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and places, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 a. d. 2. Of or pertaining to the Mayas.