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Tamil : adj : of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the
language itself; "the Tamil Tigers are fighting the
Sinhalese in Sri Lanka"; "Tamil agglutinative phrases"
[syn: Tamil]
(noun)
1: a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasoid people of
southern India and Sri Lanka [syn: Tamil]
2: the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the
Tamil people in southern India and Sri Lanka [syn: Tamil]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Tamil : \Ta"mil\, a.
Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
[Written also Tamul.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Tamil : \Ta"mil\, n. [Written also Tamul.]
1. (Ethnol.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of
Northern Ceylon and Southern India.
2. The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian
languages. See Dravidian, a.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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