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# indian

«indian» in Mova's school dictionary: **From or to do with India, a large country in South Asia:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective / noun (Indian, Indians — written with a capital I)

### meaning for a pupil

1) From or to do with India, a large country in South Asia: Indian food, Indian languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indian/#m1)

2) An Indian is a person from India. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indian/#m2)

3) The Indian Ocean lies south of India, between Africa and Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indian/#m3)

4) Older word for the native peoples of the Americas; today "Native American", "First Nations" or the name of the people is preferred. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indian/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, India is the country with the most people in the world; the Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean. In everyday life, Indian food such as curry, dal and naan is popular in the UK, Australia, Canada and elsewhere. In history, Columbus wrongly called the people of the Americas "Indians" because he thought he had reached India. Phrases: Indian Ocean, Indian food, Indian summer, American Indian.

### examples

- My friend's family is Indian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indian/#x1)
- We had Indian food for dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indian/#x2)
- The Indian Ocean is warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indian/#x3)
- Hindi is one of the Indian languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indian/#x4)
- Columbus thought he had reached India. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indian/#x5)
- In Canada we say First Nations for the original peoples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indian/#x6)

### note

Always written with a capital I: Indian. Use "an": an Indian restaurant. Respect: for the first peoples of North America, say "Native American" (USA) or "First Nations", "Inuit" and "Métis" (Canada), or use the people's own name. An "Indian summer" means warm weather in autumn.

### In the corpora

- [The tabla is a pair of Indian hand drums; pressing the skin while striking it changes the pitch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/13/)
- ["Namaste" with palms pressed together is a respectful Indian and Nepali greeting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/125-greetings-and-introductions/5/)
- [In Europa Universalis 5 the Indian Ocean trade between Gujarat, Calicut, Aden and Malacca flows all year round.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/6/)
- [The Portuguese did not simply join the Indian Ocean trade but used warships and forts to force others to buy passes and pay duties.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/15/)
- [The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra, killed about 230,000 people in 14 countries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «indian» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indian/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.