Usually means: Indigenous people from New Guinea.
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  1. Papuan, Papuan: Merriam-Webster
  2. Papuan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Papuan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Papuan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Papuan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Papuan: Wordnik
  7. Papuan: Wiktionary
  8. Papuan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Papuan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Papuan: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Papuan, papuan: Dictionary.com
  12. Papuan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Papuan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. papuan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Papuan: Rhymezone
  16. Papuan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. papuan: FreeDictionary.org
  18. papuan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Papuan: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Papuan: Encyclopedia

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  1. Papuan: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Papuan)

▸ adjective:  From, or pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
▸ adjective:  Pertaining to the Papuan group of languages.
▸ noun:  Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
▸ noun:  A geographical grouping of languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and its neighboring islands, as opposed to Austronesian.

Similar:
papuan language, Papua New Guinean, New Guinean, Polynesian, French Polynesian, Guamanian, Australasian, Panamanian, Vanuatuan, Paraguayan, more...

Opposite:
non-Papuan, non-native, foreign, outsider

Types:
Abui, Asmat, Kamoro, Korowai, Kwoma, Mamberamo, Nduga, Sentani, more...

Phrases:
Papuan languages, papuan language, papuan monetary unit, papuan black snake, Papuan eagle, more...

Adjectives:
australo, sub, young, typical, non, true, first, melanesian, black, naked, average

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Similar:
papuan language, Papua New Guinean, New Guinean, Polynesian, French Polynesian, Guamanian, Australasian, Panamanian, Vanuatuan, Paraguayan, more...

Opposite:
non-Papuan, non-native, foreign, outsider

Types:
Abui, Asmat, Kamoro, Korowai, Kwoma, Mamberamo, Nduga, Sentani, more...

Phrases:
Papuan languages, papuan language, papuan monetary unit, papuan black snake, Papuan eagle, Papuan frogmouth, West Papuan languages, Papuan epaulette shark, Papuan Infantry Battalion, more...

Adjectives:
australo, sub, young, typical, non, true, first, melanesian, black, naked, average



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