Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word INDIAN

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Definitions of INDIAN

1. Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies. [from 14th c.]
2. (obsolete) Eastern; Oriental.
3. Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. [from 16th c.]
4. (North America, of foods) Made with Indian corn or maize. [from 17th c.]
5. (chess) 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. [from 19th c.]
6. A person from India. [from 13th c.]
7. An American Indian, a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, or Yupik). [from 16th c.]
8. (nowrare, historical) An indigenous inhabitant of Australia, New Zealand or the Pacific islands. [from 18th c.]
9. (uncountable) Indian cuisine; traditional Indian food.
10. (UK, colloquial) A meal at (or taken away from) an Indian restaurant. [from 20th c.]
11. (UK, colloquial) An Indian restaurant.
12. Short for Mardi Gras Indian.
13. (nonstandard) Any of the (unrelated) languages spoken by American Indians.
14. (nonstandard, rare) Any language spoken by natives of India, especially Hindi.
15. Alternative letter-case form of Indian ("indigene").
16. Alternative letter-case form of Indian ("indigenous").

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Examples of Using INDIAN in a Sentence

• His empire covered a large part of the Indian subcontinent, stretching from present-day Afghanistan in the west to present-day Bangladesh in the east, with its capital at Pataliputra.
• It is washed by the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean or, depending on definition, the southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.
• He served as the governor of Kirman and a prominent leader in Iran and later in the Indian subcontinent.
• He served as viceroy of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515, during which he expanded Portuguese influence across the Indian Ocean and built a reputation as a fierce and skilled military commander.
• He is often considered one of the greatest, most accomplished and commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema.
• He had previously served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, commanding the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater.
• Under his emperorship, Mughal Empire reached its greatest extent with territory spanning nearly the entirety of the Indian subcontinent.
• The species had an expansive range spanning from Western Europe and North Africa to the Indian subcontinent and East Asia.
• Born in Thurso, Caithness, he served in the British Army during the French and Indian War before settling in the Province of Pennsylvania.
• Universally regarded as masterpieces of Buddhist religious art, the caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art, particularly expressive paintings that present emotions through gesture, pose and form.
• No other Indian religion has developed the non-violence doctrine and its implications on everyday life as much as has Jainism.
• Landing points for the SEA-ME-WE-3, SJC, AAG, Lubuan-Brunei Submarine Cable via optical telecommunications submarine cables that provides links to Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, and the US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean) (2019).
• Le Petomane, and a Yiddish-speaking Indian chief; he also dubs lines for one of Lili Von Shtupp's backing troupe and a cranky moviegoer.
• The industry is a part of the larger Indian cinema, which also includes South Indian cinema and other smaller film industries.
• Buddhist philosophy is the ancient Indian philosophical system that developed within the religio-philosophical tradition of Buddhism.
• A ballpoint pen, also known as a biro (British English), ball pen (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Pakistani, Indian and Philippine English), or dot pen (Nepali English and South Asian English), is a pen that dispenses ink (usually in paste form) over a metal ball at its point, i.
• In about 1150, the Indian mathematician Bhaskaracharya gave an exposition of binomial coefficients in his book Līlāvatī.
• Its name originates from the gin and tonic popularised by the Royal Indian Armed Forces during the British Raj in colonial India; "Bombay" refers to the Indian city and "Sapphire" refers to the violet-blue Star of Bombay which was mined from British Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution.
• The region of Bengal proper is divided between the modern-day sovereign nation of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
• The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean.

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