red man

See also: redman and Redman

English

Alternative forms

• redman

Noun

red man (plural red men)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red,‎ man.
2. (now considered an ethnic slur and offensive) An American Indian, a Native American.
   • 1977, Angela Carter, ‘That Arizona Home’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 337:

     The Sacred Circles show was heavily into myth, especially the current myth of the Red Man as mystic.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:red man.

Synonyms

• redskin
• see also Thesaurus:Native American

Further reading

• “red man”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Erdman, Marden, Menard, damner, mander, manred, mrenda, remand