Associations to the word «Costanoan»

Wiktionary

COSTANOAN, proper noun. Ohlone people, native to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, California.
COSTANOAN, proper noun. The Utian (Penutian) family of languages of this people.

Dictionary definition

COSTANOAN, noun. A member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay.
COSTANOAN, noun. A Penutian language spoken by the Costanoan.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats