Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.dɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈɪn.di.ən/
ipa: /ˈɪɳ.ɖɪə̯n/
rhymes: -ɪndiən
Forms: form: more Indian
form: most Indian
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman indien, Middle French indien, corresponding to Ind + -ian or India + -an. Applied to inhabitants of the Americas due to an early misconception that the Americas were the eastern end of Asia / the Indies (hence also the designation of Caribbean islands as the West Indies).
Senses: examples: text: An IAF representative told an Indian parliamentary committee that due to the Ukraine war a “major delivery” from Moscow “is not going to take place.”
ref: 2023 March 24, Rhea Mogul, “Russia can’t meet India arms deliveries due to Ukraine war, Indian Air Force says”, in CNN:
synonyms: East Indian
Indic
Hindian
Desi
Indish
glosses: Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
examples: text: The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Eastern; Oriental.
examples: text: The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns.
ref: 1879, Friedrich August Flückiger et al., Pharmacographia..., page 346:
synonyms: Native American
Amerindian
First Nation
glosses: Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
examples: text: Indian bread
text: Indian meal
glosses: Made with Indian corn or maize.
raw_tags: of foods
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Designating any of various chess openings now characterised by black's attempt to control the board through knights and fianchettoed bishops rather than with a central pawn advance.
Derived terms: American Indian
Amerind
Amerindian
Asian Indian
Black East Indian
East Indian
Hindian
Indiana
Indian aconite
Indian almond
Indian-American
Indian apple
Indian beet
Indian bison
Indian boys and girls
Indian bullfrog
Indian burn
Indian carp
Indian caustic barley
Indian cobra
Indian coral tree
Indian corn
Indian darter
Indian elephant
Indian fever
Indian fig
Indian file
Indian fire
Indian fox
Indian geranium
Indian ghost
Indian ginger
Indian giving
Indian goosegrass
Indian harp
Indian hawthorn
Indian hemp
Indian hog deer
Indian ink
Indianize
Indian lemonade
Indian licorice
Indian liquorice
Indian mahogany
Indian mulberry
Indian mustard
Indian myna
Indian nard
Indianness
Indian nightjar
Indian Ocean
Indian Orthodox Church
Indian ox
Indian paintbrush
Indian paintpot
Indian paint pot
Indian paint rock
Indian pangolin
Indian pariah dog
Indian pea
Indian peacock
Indian peafowl
Indian pipe
Indian plantain
Indian plum
Indian poker
Indian pond heron
Indian potato
Indian pudding
Indian red
Indian relish
Indian rhinoceros
Indian rhubarb
Indian River
Indian rojak
Indian rugburn
Indian Runner
Indian sandalwood
Indian sarsaparilla
Indian sign
Indian skimmer
Indian spotted creeper
Indian star tortoise
Indian strawberry
Indian style
Indian summer
Indian sunburn
Indian swiftlet
Indian tapir
Indian thistle
Indian tick typhus
Indian warrior
Indian wax scale
Indian Wells
Indian wheat
Indian wolf
Indian wrestling
Indian yellow
King's Indian Defence
non-status Indian
pan-Indian
quantum of Indian blood
Queen's Indian Defence
status Indian
too many chiefs and not enough Indians
West Indian
Related terms: Indo-