Synonyms:
Inca, Inka
Meaning: the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s
Synonyms:
Inca, Inka, Incan
Meaning: a member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru
Synonyms:
Inca
Meaning: a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)
Usage examples
No one, except in wilful fancy, would envy the peculiar advantages of a whale or an ant, of an Inca or a Grand Lama.
It is related that about the year 1440, at a grand religious council held at the consecration of the newly-built temple of the Sun at Cuzco, the Inca Yupanqui rose before the assembled multitude and spoke somewhat as follows:--