Athabaskan :  n 1: a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska [syn: Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan] 2: a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir) [syn: Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan, Athapaskan language]