Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tamil"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tamil \Ta"mil\, a.
Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
[Written also {Tamul}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
n 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}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.