[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tamil \ta"mil\, a.
   of or pertaining to the tamils, or to their language.
   written also tamul.
   1913 webster
see also:
tamul 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tamil \ta"mil\, n. written also tamul.
   1. ethnol. one of a dravidian race of men native of
      northern ceylon and southern india.
      1913 webster

   2. the tamil language, the most important of the dravidian
      languages. see dravidian, a.
      1913 webster
see also:
dravidian 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

tamil
     adj : of or relating to a speaker of the tamil language or the
           language itself; "the tamil tigers are fighting the
           sinhalese in sri lanka"; "tamil agglutinative phrases"
     n 1: a member of the mixed dravidian and caucasoid people of
          southern india and sri lanka
     2: the dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the
        tamil people in southern india and sri lanka

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