Native American vs Coeur d'Alene

Coeur d'Alene vs Native American

Native American and Coeur d'Alene both are nouns.

Native American is an adjective but Coeur d'Alene is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Native American	Yes	Yes	No	No
Coeur d'Alene	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Coeur d'Alene is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Coeur d'Alene 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
Coeur d'Alene: a member of an Amerindian people living in northern Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake

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

Native American (noun)	Coeur d'Alene (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	a town in the northern panhandle of Idaho; popular resort area
	a member of an Amerindian people living in northern Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake

Native American (adjective)	Coeur d'Alene (adjective)
of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages

Difference between Native American and Coeur d'Alene

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