What is the difference between americas and indian?
americas | indian |
Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
(obsolete) Eastern; Oriental.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , volume 10:
(dated) Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
(North America) Of foods: made with Indian corn or maize.
(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.
A person from India.
A member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, or Yupik).
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(UK, colloquial) A meal at (or taken away from) an Indian restaurant.
As proper nouns the difference between americas and indian
is that americas is north America and South America taken together (usually the Americas) while Indian is any language spoken by Indians.As an adjective Indian is
of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.As a noun Indian is
a person from India.indian
English
Adjective
(-)- The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre .
- Indian''' bread; '''Indian meal
Synonyms
* (of or or relating to India or its people) (l), (l) * (of or related to indigenous peoples of the Americas) (l), (l), (l) (chiefly Canadian), (l)Derived terms
* Amerindian (American Indian) * Hindian (Asian Indian) * Indian clover * Indian elephant * Indian file * Indian giving * Indian Ocean * Indian red * Indian sign * Indian style * Indian sunburn * Indian tea * too many chiefs and not enough Indians *Noun
(en noun)- We're going out tonight for an Indian .
