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indian | hispanic |

As a noun indian

is indian, american indian (a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the americas).

indian

English

Adjective

(-)
  • 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:
    • The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre .
  • (dated) Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
  • (North America) Of foods: made with Indian corn or maize.
    • Indian''' bread; '''Indian meal
  • (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.

    • 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 *

    Related terms

    * Indo-

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person from India.
  • A member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, or Yupik).
  • *
  • (UK, colloquial) A meal at (or taken away from) an Indian restaurant.
    • We're going out tonight for an Indian .

    Synonyms

    * (person from India) Asian Indian * (indigenous person of the Americas) Amerindian, Native American, Red Indian * (indigenous person of the Americas) Native Canadian, First Nations person * See also

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (nonstandard) Any language spoken by Indians.

    • Statistics

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    hispanic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to Spain
  • Of or relating to a Spanish-speaking people or culture, as in Latin America.
    • Houses in New Mexico, California and Florida exhibit a strong Hispanic architectural influence.
  • (historical) Of or pertaining to the Iberian peninsula, its people, its culture or its languages.
  • (colloquial) mestizo.

    • Synonyms

    * (of Spain) Spanish * (of Spanish-speaking people) Latin, Latino * (of Iberia) Iberian, Hispanian

    Derived terms

    * Hispanicism * Hispanicity * Hispanicise, Hispanicize * Hispanicisation, Hispanicization

    Related terms

    * Hispanist * Hispano-, hispano- * Hispanophile * Hispanophilia * Hispanophilic * Hispanophobe * Hispanophobia * Hispanophobic * Hispanophone * Hispanophone Caribbean * Hispanophonia

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Spanish-speaking person.
  • A person residing in the United States, Latin America or worldwide of Spanish ancestry
  • (colloquial) a mestizo.

    • Related terms

    * Hispano * spaniel * Spanish * Spanish-speaking

    See also

    * Iberian * Ibero- * Ibero-America * Ibero-American * Ibero-Romance * Latin * Latina * Latin American * Latino