INDIANとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɪn.dɪ.ən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɪn.di.ən/
• (India) IPA: /ˈɪɳ.ɖɪə̯n/
• 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. 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) 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 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) 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!

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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