Ka·ren
(kə-rēn′)n. pl. Karen or Ka·rens
1. A member of a people inhabiting southeast Myanmar and western Thailand.
2. Any of the Tibeto-Burman languages of this people.
[Earlier Burmese ka-reng (Modern Burmese kayin), originally a derogatory term.]
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Karen
(kəˈrɛn)npl -rens or -ren
1. (Peoples) a member of a Thai people of Myanmar
2. (Peoples) the language of this people, probably related to Thai and belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family
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Ka•ren
(kəˈrɛn)n., pl. -rens, (esp. collectively) -ren.
1. a member of a people or group of peoples of E and S Burma and adjacent parts of Thailand.
2. the group of closely related languages spoken by the Karens, affiliated with the Tibeto-Burman subgroup of Sino-Tibetan.
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| Noun | 1. |  Karen - the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlandsTibeto-Burman, Tibeto-Burman language - a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula |
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