Definitions of tamil [ˈtæm əl, ˈtʌm-, ˈtɑ məl]

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Definition of 'tamil'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Tamil
a member of a people of S Asia, living mainly in S India and in N and E Sri Lanka.

2. Tamil
the Dravidian language of the Tamils.

Definition of 'tamil'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Tamil
a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka

2. (adj) Tamil
the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil in southern India and Sri Lanka

3. (adj) Tamil
of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself
"Tamil agglutinative phrases"

Definition of 'tamil'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) tamil
of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language

2. (noun) tamil
one of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India

3. (noun) tamil
the Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a

Definitions of 'tamil'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. tamil
a branch of the Dravidian language, spoken in the S. of India and among the coolies of Ceylon.

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