inca Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)
  2. noun a member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru
    Incan; Inka.
  3. noun the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s
    Inka.

WordNet


In"ca noun
Definitions
  1. An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have been descendants of the sun.
  2. pl. The people governed by the Incas, now represented by the Quichua tribe.

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