Windtalker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Windtalker is a noun meaning (historical, military) A Navajo codetalker during World War II.
Meaning
(historical, military) A Navajo codetalker during World War II.
Example Sentences
There are alternative forms of code, like using obscure languages: World War II's Navajo “windtalkers” are a well-known case.
Even when they forced a captured Navajo soldier, who was not a Windtalker, to translate intercepted messages, he could not make head or tail of the stream of words because of the code within a code.
Word Forms
- windtalkers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include codetalker, powwow, heyoka, nahuatlato, brave, chinook.
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