Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

What is the noun for indic?

What's the noun for indic? Here's the word you're looking for.

Indian
  1. A person from India. [from 13th c.]
  2. A member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, or Yupik). [from 16th c.]
  3. (now rare, historical) An indigenous inhabitant of Australia, New Zealand or the Pacific islands. [from 18th c.]
  4. (Britain, colloquial) A meal at (or taken away from) an Indian restaurant. [from 20th c.]
  5. (Britain, colloquial) An Indian restaurant.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “My status as an Indian living in the US gives me both disadvantages and advantages.”
      “A Native American Indian who may have come from the Kiskiack tribe was taken from the same area in 1561 by Spanish explorers.”
      “I feel like some Indian tonight.”
Indianisation
  1. The act, process or result of Indianizing.
  2. The practice, towards the end of the British Raj, of promoting Indian people to more senior positions in the civil service.
Indianism
  1. A word or phrase in a form as spoken in India.
  2. (South America) The idealized portrayal of indigenous people as national heroes.
  3. Examples:
    1. “On the contrary our western brothers and sisters who come to India, import Indianism into the West.”
      “Indigenism must not be confused with Indianism or local color.”
      “This entire collection has a sense of Indianism to it but its more projecting contemporary India.”
Indiaman
  1. (nautical) A large ship that traded between Britain and India on behalf of the East India Company
  2. Examples:
    1. “She is the second replica of an East Indiaman after the Dutch Batavia, though from a later period.”
      “It was then British policy to transport convicts in officially naval vessels, although the Calcutta was a big converted East Indiaman with 500 people aboard.”
      “Even Samuel Pepys, then the surveyor-victualer of the Royal Navy, was unprepared for the cargo he inspected in November 1665 aboard a captured Dutch Indiaman.”
Indianist
Indianization
  1. Alternative spelling of Indianisation
  2. Examples:
    1. “Rusty's British guardian John Harrison grudgingly guards Rusty against the influences of Indianization.”
Indianness
  1. Quality of being Indian.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The trick with this genre is to make Indianness merely an identity and a background to a character, rather than the character itself.”
      “Her Indianness began to be reflected in her clothes, her manner, her language and her attitudes, all of which are very similar to ours.”
      “Her Indianness does not relate through traditional, canonical or local folk and tribal art forms or imagery.”
Indianeer
  1. (nautical) An Indiaman.
Indianeers
  1. plural of Indianeer
Indianisms
  1. plural of Indianism
Indianists
  1. plural of Indianist
Indiamen
  1. plural of Indiaman
  2. Examples:
    1. “On this occasion the Indiamen also succeeded in bluffing their way to safety, and without any shots even being fired.”
      “Lastly, on 15 June 1795, the General Goddard played a large role in the capture of seven Dutch East Indiamen off St Helena.”
      “When two large, loaded Indiamen chance to crowd and crush towards each other in the docks, what do the sailors do?”
Indians
  1. plural of Indian
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In March, the western Indians began negotiating for peace while the Wampanoags and Narragansetts returned to their homelands in search of food.”
      “The colonists celebrated it as a traditional English harvest feast, to which they invited the local Wampanoag Indians.”
      “Then, I realised the guests were not Indians, but rather Aboriginal Australians.”
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
5-letter Words Starting With
Find Nouns
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024