OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 1163

Indian

/ˈɪn.dɪ.ən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hindú • indio • indo
Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
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.”
amerindio • indiano • indio • indoamericano • indígena • jashte • jashto
Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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 th…
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📚 noun • entry_id 1164

Indian

/ˈɪn.dɪ.ən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hindú • india • indio • indo
A person from India.
Young Indians looking for work opportunities have made up a sizeable portion of undocumented migrants in the US, many after making the dangerous trek through Latin America to reach…
amerindia • amerindio • indiana • indiano • indio • indoamericana • indoamericano • indígena • jashte • jashto
An American Indian, a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, and Yupik).
High Jack had been drinking too much rum ever since we landed in Boca. You know how an Indian is—the palefaces fixed his clock when they introduced him to firewater.
We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude…
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