Indianとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɪndɪən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪndi.ən/
• ハイフネーション: In‧di‧an

形容詞

Indian (comparative more Indian, superlative most Indian)

1. Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: East Indian, Indic, Hindian, Desi, Indish (古風な用法)

2. (obsolete) Eastern; Oriental.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 5, canto 10:

     The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre […] .

3. Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. [from 16th c.]
   • 1879, Friedrich August Flückiger & al., Pharmacographia..., p. 346:

     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.

   Synonyms: Native American, Amerindian, First Nation

4. (Canada, 米国用法, of foods) Made with Indian corn or maize. [from 17th c.]

   Indian bread; Indian meal

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.]

派生語

関連する語

• Indo-

名詞

Indian (複数形 Indians)

1. A person from India. [from 13th c.]
2. A Native American, a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, または Yupik). [from 16th c.]
   • 1819-1820, Washington Irving, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:

     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 code of honor.

   • 1951, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork

     With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!

3. (now rare, historical) An indigenous inhabitant of Australia, New Zealand or the Pacific islands. [from 18th c.]
4. (uncountable) Indian cuisine; traditional Indian food.
5. (UK, colloquial) A meal at (または taken away from) an Indian restaurant. [from 20th c.]

   We're going out tonight for an Indian.

6. (UK, colloquial) An Indian restaurant.

   We're going down the Indian for a curry - wanna join us?

同意語

• (person from India): Asian Indian, East Indian, Hindian, Desi
• (indigenous person of the Americas): American Indian, Amerindian, Native American, Red Indian, First Nations person
• See also Thesaurus:Native American

固有名詞

Indian

1. (nonstandard) Any of the (unrelated) languages spoken by American Indians.
2. (nonstandard, rare) Any language spoken by natives of India, especially Hindi.
   • 1968 Anne Rider, A hilltop in hazard, page 51:

     [They said] 'Mutton can speak Indian', 'Mutton can see Kanchinjunga out of his bedroom window'[.]

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