[ 'karɪb ]
■ noun
1》 a member of an indigenous South American people living mainly in coastal regions of French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, and Venezuela.
2》 the language of the ~.
↘the ~an family of languages.
3》 (also Island ~ ) an unrelated Arawakan language, now extinct, formerly spoken in the Lesser Antilles.
Origin
from Sp. caribe , from Haitian Creole.