Native American vs red man

red man vs Native American

Native American and red man both are nouns.

Native American is an adjective but red man is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Native American	Yes	Yes	No	No
red man	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, red man is a hyponym of Native American; that is, red man 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
red man: (slang) offensive term for Native Americans

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, 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)	red man (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	(slang) offensive term for Native Americans

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

Difference between Native American and red man

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