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Definition of Indian in English: Indianadjective ˈɪndɪənˈɪndiən 1Relating to India or to the subcontinent comprising India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. （与）印度（有关）的；（与）印度次大陆（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - There is never a dull moment in the great Indian sub-continent, is there?
- Despite fears of a war, many observers believe, however, that a concerted Indian attack on Pakistan is unlikely.
- Such a struggle will find a powerful response from the urban and rural masses in Sri Lanka, in the Indian sub-continent as a whole and internationally.
- The exposition is the first one to take Indian designers to Pakistan.
- And Muslim Pakistan still occupies Indian territory in Kashmir that it seized by force in 1948.
- The city's large Asian population makes it is easier to integrate refugees from the Indian sub-continent including Pakistan and Bangladesh.
- Persia, now Iran, was once a vast empire stretching from Egypt and the Danube to the Indian sub-continent.
- Pakistan described the Indian proposal as old and unworkable.
- That vast country has over a million troops on the ready after rebels thought to be from Pakistan attacked an Indian army camp in Kashmir.
- After the success of its gridiron coverage, Channel 4 turned its attentions to the subcontinent and the ancient Indian discipline kabaddi.
- A spokesman for Pakistan further enraged Indian opinion by answering that India may have staged the attack upon itself.
- In this context, it is critical to review the bitter experience of the masses in the Indian sub-continent, particularly in India and Sri Lanka.
- Bangladesh and Indian border troops exchanged fire Thursday for the second straight day as tension rose on the entire border of the two countries.
- The families of many of the Asian youth who were involved in the disturbances had originally come to the UK from the Indian sub-continent to work in the mills.
- Newspapers published by Indian communities flourish everywhere, and they invariably carry a section with matrimonial ads.
- It is no coincidence that these countries are among the poorest on the planet and include Sudan, Ethiopia, Senegal, Afghanistan and parts of the Indian sub-continent.
- And it has endured; it is already specifically Indian and forms the basis of modern Indian culture.
- This pressure led the police to deport even Indian nationals to Bangladesh.
- Is the idea that this may become a breakthrough for Indian film in America, dragging India's Bollywood film culture into modern day?
- It does not, however, seem to have come out of the Indian sub-continent, where so many Greek, Latin, European and Slavonic words are sourced.
2Relating to or denoting indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America, especially those of North America. Example sentencesExamples - As with most Indian tribes in North America the lives of the Apache were destroyed as their life-blood, the buffalo were slaughtered by the whites.
- Batista has visited six tribes, sleeping in their housing eating meals with them and relaying to them the teachings of his Carib Indian grandmother.
- The top link of the food chain in this region belongs to the polar bears and the Inuit Indian people who are indigenous to this world of ice and cold.
- Both the Sumu and Miskito languages are derived from the Chibchan Indian language family of South America.
- This Indian Territory was where eastern Indian tribes such as the Kickapoos, Delawares, and Shawnees lived.
- He has witnessed weddings featuring lone pipers, ladies' choirs and even a Sioux Indian ceremony for an American couple wishing to reflect their roots.
- Derick operated his first projector at the age of 10, and apart from 20 years as a bingo hall manager on the edge of Indian reservations in America, has been a slave to the silver screen.
- Much of the frontier became ‘civilized’ at the cost of shrinking Seminole lands and desecrating Indian burial mounds.
- There are two sources of native borrowing: the Canadian Indian languages such as Cree, Dene, and Ojibwa, and Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit or Eskimo.
- For the Oneida Nation, Indian gaming is about self-sufficiency and concern for the seventh generation.
- At their peak around 1492, the Indian population of North America had long been transforming the forest for agriculture and hunting.
- The British never solved the problems that had caused the war, nor did they develop a consistent Indian policy for North America.
- The extent of nationalist mobilization also differs amongst the various Indian tribes in America.
- Born at Shongopovi, Second Mesa, on the Hopi Indian reservation, Tewanima chased jackrabbits as a boy.
- Richard Gott writes on the deepening rebellion sweeping through Latin America and the key role played by indigenous Indian peoples
- Through Black Elk Speaks, the Great Vision helped stimulate a revival of Indian spirituality throughout North America.
- The Cherokee War consisted of three campaigns from South Carolina against the Cherokee Indian nations.
- Much of the land along rivers above Klamath Lake was former Indian allotment land.
- Many were genre scenes showing everyday Indian life featuring teepees and mounted warriors in traditional costume.
- Ironically, as hard and grueling as this brutal old Indian game is, lacrosse retained a reputation as sort of polo without the ponies.
noun ˈɪndɪənˈɪndiən 1A native or inhabitant of India, or a person of Indian descent. 印度人（或国民）；印度后裔 Example sentencesExamples - I looked about me, aware that there were very few Westerners on the flight in comparison to Indians and other nationalities.
- It was crude demagogy, browbeating nationalists and Indians through Kashmiriyat.
- It is not being extended to all Indians who are foreign nationals living in all parts of the world.
- It is virtually a global issue and more prevalent in the South East Asian nations and wherever Indians live.
- Pioneer Indian or Egyptian nationalists, Pan-Africanists, and Pan-Arabists raged against the European empires which ruled their lives.
- After all I thought that just as India was for Indians so were Indians for India!
- The Indians, Burmese and Siamese all worshiped the snake as a demon who also had good aspects.
- The second main group were foreign nationals; Indians, Singapore Chinese, Africans and others.
- Gandhi encouraged Indians to boycott British goods and buy Indian goods instead.
- And there is strong circumstantial evidence that the Indians passed on their discoveries to mathematically knowledgeable Jesuit missionaries who visited India during the fifteenth century.
- Native Indians and nationalism, the subjects of these two books, are both topics highly relevant to globalisation.
- However, there might be differences in this phenotype between immigrant and native Asian Indians.
- There is also the massive and growing presence of Indians and persons of Indian origin at Harvard.
- It is, for Indians, their most significant national monument; one they will travel great distances to see.
- By language we are Tamils, by race Dravidians and by nationality Indians.
- An irate listener called in to say that we were Indians because we were a special people descended from Lord Shiva.
2A member of any of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America, especially those of North America. Example sentencesExamples - They were cut to pieces by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in a battle that has assumed legendary proportions.
- Helianthus was first grown by the Aztec Indians who worshipped it, ate it, and decorated their wigwams with it.
- The fans in England don't realize he's a Cree Indian from North America.
- The Carib Indians who defeated the Arawaks also considered Qualibou a special place.
- Yet again Hollywood exploits another massacre, that of the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee.
- They'd apply it to a Quechua Indian who doesn't speak Spanish.
- To the Quechua Indians, respect must be given to Pachamama, the Incan earth mother.
- Pima Indians living in Arizona have one of the highest rates of diabetes in the world.
- The war began when some Seminole Indians refused to leave Florida, defying the Removal Act.
- How many Americans know that Seminole Indians and runaway black slaves formed an alliance in Florida?
- There are similar accounts in Hindi myth, in the Norse sagas, and even among the Hopi Indians of Latin America.
- Among Dominicans of African and European decent, Carib Indians maintain their own culture.
- This battle involved the U.S.A. army against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians.
- The cliff palace dwellings built by the Anasazi Indians are awe-inspiring.
- The Arawak Indians are the people first known to inhabit French Guiana.
- Before the Spaniards arrived, Arawak Indians farmed and hunted Cuba's fertile lands.
- So what did this young scientist find from his observations of the Navajo Indians?
- The rest of its people are Indians, mainly Quechua and Aymara who are subsistence farmers in the mountains.
- When I learned that my great-grandmother was an Onondaga Indian, I studied everything I could about the Iroquois.
- The practice of smoking tobacco came from the native American Indians and the Carib Indians of Tobago.
3British informal An Indian meal or restaurant. 〈英，非正式〉印度餐；印度餐馆 Example sentencesExamples - After the usual speedy sound check Phil and I went for an Indian and a few drinks in the pub over the road.
- Several pubs, two chippies - well, this is the North-East, after all - and three or four restaurants including a rather posh Indian and a darn good Italian.
- Shawlands now has an eclectic mix of places to eat, including a new Italian, two new Indians and a Kurdish restaurant.
- Last Saturday night we went for an Indian, recommended by another Indian, Amit.
UsageThe native peoples of America came to be described as Indian as a result of Christopher Columbus and other voyagers in the 15th–16th centuries believing that, when they reached the east coast of America, they had reached part of India by a new route. The terms Indian and Red Indian are today regarded as old-fashioned and inappropriate, recalling, as they do, the stereotypical portraits of the Wild West. American Indian, however, is well established, although the preference where possible is to make reference to specific peoples, such as Apache, Delaware, and so on. See also American Indian and Native American Definition of Indian in US English: Indianadjectiveˈɪndiənˈindēən 1Relating to India or to the subcontinent comprising India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. （与）印度（有关）的；（与）印度次大陆（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - It does not, however, seem to have come out of the Indian sub-continent, where so many Greek, Latin, European and Slavonic words are sourced.
- And Muslim Pakistan still occupies Indian territory in Kashmir that it seized by force in 1948.
- The city's large Asian population makes it is easier to integrate refugees from the Indian sub-continent including Pakistan and Bangladesh.
- That vast country has over a million troops on the ready after rebels thought to be from Pakistan attacked an Indian army camp in Kashmir.
- It is no coincidence that these countries are among the poorest on the planet and include Sudan, Ethiopia, Senegal, Afghanistan and parts of the Indian sub-continent.
- Newspapers published by Indian communities flourish everywhere, and they invariably carry a section with matrimonial ads.
- Such a struggle will find a powerful response from the urban and rural masses in Sri Lanka, in the Indian sub-continent as a whole and internationally.
- Despite fears of a war, many observers believe, however, that a concerted Indian attack on Pakistan is unlikely.
- Is the idea that this may become a breakthrough for Indian film in America, dragging India's Bollywood film culture into modern day?
- This pressure led the police to deport even Indian nationals to Bangladesh.
- The exposition is the first one to take Indian designers to Pakistan.
- And it has endured; it is already specifically Indian and forms the basis of modern Indian culture.
- After the success of its gridiron coverage, Channel 4 turned its attentions to the subcontinent and the ancient Indian discipline kabaddi.
- There is never a dull moment in the great Indian sub-continent, is there?
- The families of many of the Asian youth who were involved in the disturbances had originally come to the UK from the Indian sub-continent to work in the mills.
- Bangladesh and Indian border troops exchanged fire Thursday for the second straight day as tension rose on the entire border of the two countries.
- Persia, now Iran, was once a vast empire stretching from Egypt and the Danube to the Indian sub-continent.
- In this context, it is critical to review the bitter experience of the masses in the Indian sub-continent, particularly in India and Sri Lanka.
- Pakistan described the Indian proposal as old and unworkable.
- A spokesman for Pakistan further enraged Indian opinion by answering that India may have staged the attack upon itself.
2Relating to or denoting indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America, especially those of North America. Example sentencesExamples - Batista has visited six tribes, sleeping in their housing eating meals with them and relaying to them the teachings of his Carib Indian grandmother.
- For the Oneida Nation, Indian gaming is about self-sufficiency and concern for the seventh generation.
- At their peak around 1492, the Indian population of North America had long been transforming the forest for agriculture and hunting.
- Much of the land along rivers above Klamath Lake was former Indian allotment land.
- Richard Gott writes on the deepening rebellion sweeping through Latin America and the key role played by indigenous Indian peoples
- The top link of the food chain in this region belongs to the polar bears and the Inuit Indian people who are indigenous to this world of ice and cold.
- The British never solved the problems that had caused the war, nor did they develop a consistent Indian policy for North America.
- Derick operated his first projector at the age of 10, and apart from 20 years as a bingo hall manager on the edge of Indian reservations in America, has been a slave to the silver screen.
- Many were genre scenes showing everyday Indian life featuring teepees and mounted warriors in traditional costume.
- The extent of nationalist mobilization also differs amongst the various Indian tribes in America.
- The Cherokee War consisted of three campaigns from South Carolina against the Cherokee Indian nations.
- Through Black Elk Speaks, the Great Vision helped stimulate a revival of Indian spirituality throughout North America.
- There are two sources of native borrowing: the Canadian Indian languages such as Cree, Dene, and Ojibwa, and Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit or Eskimo.
- Both the Sumu and Miskito languages are derived from the Chibchan Indian language family of South America.
- Ironically, as hard and grueling as this brutal old Indian game is, lacrosse retained a reputation as sort of polo without the ponies.
- Much of the frontier became ‘civilized’ at the cost of shrinking Seminole lands and desecrating Indian burial mounds.
- Born at Shongopovi, Second Mesa, on the Hopi Indian reservation, Tewanima chased jackrabbits as a boy.
- This Indian Territory was where eastern Indian tribes such as the Kickapoos, Delawares, and Shawnees lived.
- He has witnessed weddings featuring lone pipers, ladies' choirs and even a Sioux Indian ceremony for an American couple wishing to reflect their roots.
- As with most Indian tribes in North America the lives of the Apache were destroyed as their life-blood, the buffalo were slaughtered by the whites.
nounˈɪndiənˈindēən 1A native or inhabitant of India, or a person of Indian descent. 印度人（或国民）；印度后裔 Example sentencesExamples - By language we are Tamils, by race Dravidians and by nationality Indians.
- It is, for Indians, their most significant national monument; one they will travel great distances to see.
- Native Indians and nationalism, the subjects of these two books, are both topics highly relevant to globalisation.
- I looked about me, aware that there were very few Westerners on the flight in comparison to Indians and other nationalities.
- It is virtually a global issue and more prevalent in the South East Asian nations and wherever Indians live.
- An irate listener called in to say that we were Indians because we were a special people descended from Lord Shiva.
- The Indians, Burmese and Siamese all worshiped the snake as a demon who also had good aspects.
- And there is strong circumstantial evidence that the Indians passed on their discoveries to mathematically knowledgeable Jesuit missionaries who visited India during the fifteenth century.
- The second main group were foreign nationals; Indians, Singapore Chinese, Africans and others.
- It was crude demagogy, browbeating nationalists and Indians through Kashmiriyat.
- There is also the massive and growing presence of Indians and persons of Indian origin at Harvard.
- It is not being extended to all Indians who are foreign nationals living in all parts of the world.
- After all I thought that just as India was for Indians so were Indians for India!
- Gandhi encouraged Indians to boycott British goods and buy Indian goods instead.
- Pioneer Indian or Egyptian nationalists, Pan-Africanists, and Pan-Arabists raged against the European empires which ruled their lives.
- However, there might be differences in this phenotype between immigrant and native Asian Indians.
2A member of any of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America, especially those of North America. Example sentencesExamples - To the Quechua Indians, respect must be given to Pachamama, the Incan earth mother.
- The war began when some Seminole Indians refused to leave Florida, defying the Removal Act.
- Before the Spaniards arrived, Arawak Indians farmed and hunted Cuba's fertile lands.
- The rest of its people are Indians, mainly Quechua and Aymara who are subsistence farmers in the mountains.
- They were cut to pieces by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in a battle that has assumed legendary proportions.
- When I learned that my great-grandmother was an Onondaga Indian, I studied everything I could about the Iroquois.
- The cliff palace dwellings built by the Anasazi Indians are awe-inspiring.
- Yet again Hollywood exploits another massacre, that of the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee.
- How many Americans know that Seminole Indians and runaway black slaves formed an alliance in Florida?
- The fans in England don't realize he's a Cree Indian from North America.
- This battle involved the U.S.A. army against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians.
- Helianthus was first grown by the Aztec Indians who worshipped it, ate it, and decorated their wigwams with it.
- The Arawak Indians are the people first known to inhabit French Guiana.
- Among Dominicans of African and European decent, Carib Indians maintain their own culture.
- They'd apply it to a Quechua Indian who doesn't speak Spanish.
- So what did this young scientist find from his observations of the Navajo Indians?
- Pima Indians living in Arizona have one of the highest rates of diabetes in the world.
- The Carib Indians who defeated the Arawaks also considered Qualibou a special place.
- The practice of smoking tobacco came from the native American Indians and the Carib Indians of Tobago.
- There are similar accounts in Hindi myth, in the Norse sagas, and even among the Hopi Indians of Latin America.
UsageIndian, meaning ‘native of America before the arrival of Europeans,’ is objected to by many who now favor Native American. However, there are others (including many members of these ethnic groups) who see nothing wrong with the long-established terms Indian and American Indian, although the preference where possible is to refer to specific peoples, as Apache, Delaware, and so on. The terms Amerind and Amerindian, once proposed as alternatives to Indian, are used in linguistics and anthropology, but have never gained widespread use. Newer alternatives, not yet widely established, include First Nation (especially in Canada) and the more generic aboriginal peoples. It should be noted that Indian is held by many not to include some indigenous groups of North America—for example, Aleuts and Inuits. A further consideration is that Indian also (and in many contexts, primarily) refers to inhabitants of India or their descendants, who may be referred to as ‘Asian Indians’ to prevent misunderstanding. See also American Indian |