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Maya   /mˈaɪə/   Listen
Maya

noun
1.
A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.  Synonym: Mayan.
2.
A family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya.  Synonyms: Mayan, Mayan language.



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"Maya" Quotes from Famous Books



... in mind the distinction here involved between the two elements of every work of art: matter and form, substance and technique, [Greek: onta] and [Greek: gignomena], Brahm and Maya, Wille und Vorstellung, the emotional and the intellectual life of man, or, untechnically, what he feels and his communication of those feelings to others as a social being. With the first of these the critic has nothing to do; the matter is given; all he has to consider is whether it has found ...
— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight



Words linked to "Maya" :   Yucateco, Mam, tribe, Mayan, Maya Lin, Amerindian language, quiche, Mayan language, Amerind, Yucatec, Indian, Kekchi, Red Indian, American-Indian language, federation of tribes, American Indian, Cakchiquel



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