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indian : bombay (n.); turko (n.)

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indian
n. (person)1. american indian, indian, red indiana member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived.
~ amerindian, native americanany member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived.
~ algonquian, algonquina member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast.
~ anasazia Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings.
~ athabaskan, athapascan, athapaskan, athabascana member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska.
~ amerindian race, indian raceusually included in the Mongoloid race.
~ maya, mayana member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.; "Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar"
~ nahuatla member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico.
~ olmeca member of an early Mesoamerican civilization centered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC.
~ zapotec, zapotecana member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900.
~ buffalo indian, plains indiana member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America.
~ chickasawa member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi.
~ coeur d'alenea member of an Amerindian people living in northern Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
~ creekany member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma.
~ haidaa member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
~ hoka, hokana member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages.
~ iroquoisany member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution.
~ muskhogean, muskogeana member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages.
~ penutiana member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages.
~ puebloa member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called `Pueblos' by the Spanish because they live in pueblos (villages built of adobe and rock).
~ injun, red man, redskin(slang) offensive term for Native Americans.
~ salisha member of a group of North American Indians speaking a Salishan language and living on the northwest coast of North America.
~ shoshone, shoshonia member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States.
~ taracahitiana member of a group of peoples of Mexico.
~ tlingita member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska.
~ wakashana member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language.
~ aleut, aleutiana member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska.
~ eskimo, esquimau, inuita member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people').
~ paleo-american, paleo-amerind, paleo-indiana member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch.
~ sannupa married male American Indian.
~ squawan American Indian woman.
n. (person)2. indiana native or inhabitant of India.
~ bharat, india, republic of indiaa republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947.
~ asian, asiatica native or inhabitant of Asia.
~ indian racesometimes included in the Caucasian race; native to the subcontinent of India.
~ assamesenative or inhabitant of the state of Assam in northeastern India.
~ dravidiana member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them).
~ gujarati, gujeratia member of the people of Gujarat.
~ kashmiria member of the people of Kashmir.
~ oriyaa member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas.
~ panjabi, punjabia member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
~ mahratta, marathaa member of a people of India living in Maharashtra.
~ bohemian, roma, romani, romany, rommany, gipsy, gypsya member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America).
~ jawan(India) a private soldier or male constable.
n. (communication)3. american indian, american-indian language, amerind, amerindian language, indianany of the languages spoken by Amerindians.
~ natural language, tonguea human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language.
~ algonquian language, algonquian, algonquinfamily of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains.
~ atakapan, attacapa, atakapa, attacapana language spoken by the Atakapa of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas.
~ athabascan, athapaskan language, athabaskan, athapascan, athapaskana group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir).
~ muskhogean language, muskogean language, muskhogean, muskogeana family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States.
~ na-denea family of North American Indian languages.
~ mosana family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia.
~ caddoan, caddoan language, caddoa family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo.
~ iroquoian, iroquoian language, iroquoisa family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois.
~ kechuan, quechuan, quechuan language, kechua, quechuathe language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas.
~ maracan language, maracothe language spoken by the Maraco.
~ tupi-guarani, tupi-guarani languagea family of South American Indian languages.
~ arawak, arawakana family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America.
~ caribbean language, caribthe family of languages spoken by the Carib.
~ uto-aztecan, uto-aztecan languagea family of American Indian languages.
~ mayan language, maya, mayana family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya.
~ siouan language, siouana family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux.
~ tanoan, tanoan languagea family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States.
~ hokan, hokaa family of Amerindian languages spoken in California.
~ penutiana family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California.
adj. (pertain)4. indianof or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures.; "the Indian subcontinent"; "Indian saris"
adj. (pertain)5. amerind, amerindic, indian, native americanof or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages.; "Native American religions"; "Indian arrowheads"