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aztec
/ˈæz.tɛk/
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What does aztec mean?
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Mexica people.
- Of or pertaining to the Nahuas.
- Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language.
More meanings (5)
noun
- A Mexica.
- A Nahua.
- A hybrid defensive back position combining aspects of the safety, nickelback and linebacker positions.
proper noun
- One of the Nahuatl languages.
- A city, the county seat of San Juan County, New Mexico, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈæz.tɛk/
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See this word in context.
I felt as one bound upon an Aztec altar, with the priest's obsidian knife raised above my breast!
The Aztec legend says, "The sun was much nearer the earth then than now, and his grateful warmth rendered clothing unnecessary."
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Scholars have called attention to the fact that Humboldt discovered in Mexico a small statue which he supposed represented an Aztec priestess.
What the Aztec and Maya were striving towards in the sixteenth century A.D., various Oriental nations had attained at least five or six thousand years earlier.
They were male and female and very short, with heads resembling closely the bas-reliefs on the ancient Aztec temples of Mexico.