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INDIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
Synonyms:
American-Indian language; American Indian; Amerind; Amerindian language; Indian
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Indian" is a kind of...):
natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Indian"):
Penutian (a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California)
Hoka; Hokan (a family of Amerindian languages spoken in California)
Tanoan; Tanoan language (a family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States)
Siouan; Siouan language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux)
Maya; Mayan; Mayan language (a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayas)
Uto-Aztecan; Uto-Aztecan language (a family of American Indian languages)
Carib; Caribbean language (the family of languages spoken by the Carib)
Arawak; Arawakan (a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America)
Tupi-Guarani; Tupi-Guarani language (a family of South American Indian languages)
Maracan language; Maraco (the language spoken by the Maraco)
Kechua; Kechuan; Quechua; Quechuan; Quechuan language (the language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas)
Iroquoian; Iroquoian language; Iroquois (a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois)
Caddo; Caddoan; Caddoan language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo)
Mosan (a family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia)
Na-Dene (a family of North American Indian languages)
Muskhogean; Muskhogean language; Muskogean; Muskogean language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States)
Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan; Athapaskan language (a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir))
Atakapa; Atakapan; Attacapa; Attacapan (a language spoken by the Atakapa of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas)
Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of India
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Indian" is a kind of...):
Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Indian"):
jawan ((India) a private soldier or male constable)
Bohemian; Gipsy; Gypsy; Roma; Romani; Romany; Rommany (a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America))
Mahratta; Maratha (a member of a people of India living in Maharashtra)
Panjabi; Punjabi (a member of the people of Pakistan and Punjab)
Oriya (a member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas)
Kashmiri (a member of the people of Kashmir)
Gujarati; Gujerati (a member of the people of Gujarat)
Dravidian (a member of one of the aboriginal inhabitants of India)
Assamese (native or inhabitant of the state of Assam in northeastern India)
Holonyms ("Indian" is a member of...):
Bharat; India; Republic of India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages
Example:
Indian arrowheads
Synonyms:
Amerind; Amerindic; Indian; Native American
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures
Example:
Indian saris
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)
Derivation:
India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)
Context examples:
She showed it to me, Watson, and it was an Indian rupee.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The residence time (presence) of MJO clouds have shortened over the Indian Ocean by 3—4 days and increased over the west Pacific by 5—6 days.
(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)
When the landmass that today is the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia some 50 million years ago, the collision changed the configuration of the continents and altered global climate.
(Tectonic collision 50 million years ago led to widespread ocean changes, National Science Foundation)
A person having origins in the original peoples of the Indian sub-continent.
(Asian Indian, NCI Thesaurus)
But I feel mine is not the existence to be long protracted under an Indian sun.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Islands in the Indian Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica.
(Heard Island and McDonald Islands, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Also called garden valerian, Indian valerian, Mexican valerian, Pacific valerian, valerian, Valeriana officinalis, and Valerianae radix.
(Garden heliotrope, NCI Dictionary)
A religious group that encompasses a diverse set of beliefs and traditions that originated in the Indian subcontinent.
(Hindu, NCI Thesaurus)
I gave but five shillings a yard for it, and a true Indian muslin.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Lonely watches, and a discipline which cut them off from all companionship, had left their mark upon those Red Indian faces.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
