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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɪn.dɪ.ən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɪn.di.ən/
• (India) IPA: /ˈɪnɖ(ɪ)jən/
• 韻: -ɪndiən
• 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, (archaic) Indish

   • 2023 March 24, Rhea Mogul, “Russia can’t meet India arms deliveries due to Ukraine war, Indian Air Force says”, in CNN‎:

     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.”

2. (obsolete) Eastern; Oriental.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

3. (proscribed) Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: Native American, Amerindian, First Nation

   • 1879, Friedrich August Flückiger et al., Pharmacographia..., page 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.

4. (Canada, US, of foods, proscribed) 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 (countable and uncountable, plural Indians)

1. (countable) A person from India. [from 13th c.]

   Synonyms: Asian Indian, East Indian, Hindian, Desi

   • 2025, collective, “SCP-953”, in SCP Foundation‎:

     [A]ll personnel are to be hereby ordered to refer to her as a "Kumiho," and not a "Kitsune." Personnel asking what the difference is are to be reminded of the difference between a Cherokee Indian and a New Delhi Indian.

   • 2025 February 7, Esha Mitra, Aishwarya S Iyer and Ross Adkin, “‘Treated like criminals’: Shackling of Indians aboard 40-hour migrant flight sparks new outrage against Trump”, in CNN‎:

     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 the US southern border.

2. (countable, proscribed) An American Indian, a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, and Yupik). [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: Amerindian, Native American, Red Indian, First Nations person; see also Thesaurus:Native American

   • 1820 July, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Traits of Indian Character”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1909, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “He Also Serves”, in Options‎:

     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.

   • 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!

   • 2025, collective, “SCP-953”, in SCP Foundation‎:

     [A]ll personnel are to be hereby ordered to refer to her as a "Kumiho," and not a "Kitsune." Personnel asking what the difference is are to be reminded of the difference between a Cherokee Indian and a New Delhi Indian.

3. (countable, obsolete) An indigenous inhabitant of Australia, New Zealand or the Pacific islands. [from 18th c.]
4. (uncountable) Ellipsis of Indian cuisine.

   Have you ever tried Indian?

5. (UK, countable, colloquial) Ellipsis of Indian meal (“meal consisting of Indian cuisine”). [from 20th c.]

   We're going out tonight for an Indian.

6. (UK, countable, colloquial) Ellipsis of Indian restaurant (“restaurant serving Indian cuisine”).

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

7. (countable) Ellipsis of Mardi Gras Indian.
8. A kind of marble (spherical toy) with colored bands on an opaque black base.

派生語

• honest Indian
• Pueblo Indian

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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