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nounany of the languages spoken by Amerindianstype of:
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adjectiveof or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages
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nouna native or inhabitant of India
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of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures
Definition that contains indian
- teresa Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997)
- shankar Indian sitar player who popularized classical Indian music in the West (born in 1920)
- theresa Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997)
- bose Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles; led to the description of fundamental particles that later came to be known as bosons
- nehru Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule; was the first prime minister of the Republic of India from 1947 to 1964 (1889-1964)
- panini Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC)
- tagore Indian writer and philosopher whose poetry (based on traditional Hindu themes) pioneered the use of colloquial Bengali (1861-1941)
- jinnah Indian statesman who was the founder of Pakistan as a Muslim state (1876-1948)
- nanak Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism; he taught that all men had a right to search for knowledge of God and that spiritual liberation could be attained by meditating on the name of God (1469-1538)
- radhakrishnan Indian philosopher and statesman who introduced Indian philosophy to the West (1888-1975)