Native American vs Carib

Carib vs Native American

Native American and Carib both are nouns.

Native American is an adjective but Carib is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Native American	Yes	Yes	No	No
Carib	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Carib is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Carib is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Native American:

Native American: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
Carib: a member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles

Other hyponyms of Native American include Algonquian, Algonquin, Anasazi, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Maya, Mayan, Nahuatl, Olmec, Zapotec, Zapotecan, Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian, Chickasaw, Coeur d'Alene, Creek, Haida, Hoka, Hokan, Iroquois, Muskhogean, Muskogean, Penutian, Pueblo, Injun, red man, Redskin, Salish, Shoshone, Shoshoni, Tlingit, Wakashan, South American Indian, Carib Indian, Aleut, Aleutian, Arawak, Arawakan, Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit, Paleo-American, Paleo-Amerind, Paleo-Indian, sannup, squaw, Red Indian.

Native American (noun)	Carib (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	the family of languages spoken by the Carib
	a member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles

Native American (adjective)	Carib (adjective)
of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages

Difference between Native American and Carib

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