Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Nahuatl-speaking people of central and southern Mexico whose empire flourished from the 10th century until it collapsed under invasion by the Aztecs in the 12th century.
- adjective Of or relating to the Toltec or their culture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a race of Mexico which, according to tradition, coming from the north, ruled the country from the seventh to the eleventh century, their power passing later to the Aztecs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Ethnol.) One of a race which formerly occupied Mexico.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of a Pre-Columbian
Native American people who dominated much of centralMexico between the 10th and 12th centuries AD.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the Nahuatl speaking people of central and southern Mexico
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Twenty-six figures dressed in "Toltec" warrior garb dance around the panel to meet in the centre of the western, interior wall.
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Twenty-six figures dressed in "Toltec" warrior garb dance around the panel to meet in the centre of the western, interior wall.
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The popular Don Juan books (The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge and A Separate Reality) written by Carlos Castaneda a few decades ago also used the term Toltec to apply to people of spiritual awareness, but Castaneda was careful to say that his term did not apply to the Toltec people in general, again about whom we know almost nothing.
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The popular Don Juan books (The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge and A Separate Reality) written by Carlos Castaneda a few decades ago also used the term Toltec to apply to people of spiritual awareness, but Castaneda was careful to say that his term did not apply to the Toltec people in general, again about whom we know almost nothing.
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Besides, the Toltec were a vital and dynamic people, almost as advanced as the Teotec.
The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980
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< 95 > The savage tribes have the general name of Chichimecas, but by right this term ought to be applied to the sedentary tribes as well; however, the word Toltec stands for these sedentary tribes.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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1995 I created one of the first Forums on the internet dedicated to Toltec wisdom called The Toltec Nagual.
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Nahuatl or Aztec, and hence they have given occasion for considerable theorizing in favor of the "Toltec" origin of the Maya civilization, and also of the Nahuatl descent of the princely family of the Tutulxiu.
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868
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No wonder that the early missionaries, many of whom, like Landa, had lived in Mexico and had become familiar with the story of Quetzalcoatl and his alleged departure toward the east, identified him with Kukulcan, and that, following the notion of this assumed identity, numerous later writers have framed theories to account for the civilization of ancient Yucatan through colonies of "Toltec" immigrants.
American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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"Toltec" colony, as has been maintained by such able writers on Peruvian antiquities as Leonce Angrand and J.J. von Tschudi? [
American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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