Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Indigenous; native.
- noun One who or that which is native or indigenous; a native or aborigine; an autochthon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One born in a country; an aboriginal animal or plant; an autochthon.
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- adjective obsolete
Indigenous . - noun An
indigenous person; anative .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
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Examples
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Mr. SHAMAKI GAD PETER (Jos Director, League for Human Rights): (Through translator) People say that look, I've invested so much in this land, you need to identify me as an indigene of this place.
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Although an estimate of the Han population specifically in early Yunnan is impossible, the presence of the Chinese was often recorded in textual sources, since in keeping with Confucian moral principles, imperial authors and editors clearly distinguished the indigene (yi) from the Chinese (min) .9
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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And again, if I vote I'd like at least a choice between commie and non-commie; euro and non-euro; immigrant and indigene ....
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Immigrant populations there have taken over - that's why immigration works: hardly anybody's an indigene, so they don't think of the land as theirs in the same way as ... well, indigenes do!!
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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How could a two-year-old toddler wield a 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle, shouldering the recoil and blowback, when he could barely manage to walk and was (let's not forget!) a native indigene of Africa at the time?
Warren Holstein: Liz Cheney: Birther of Crazier Conspiracies 2009
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So, abb1, as some of us have asked, are you an indigene?
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The suffering of the other is derealized, and no amount of its representation can reinstall its meaning and weight within the consciousness of the subject, whether the sufferer is woman, the colonized, the indigene, the child, the beautiful, the handicapped, the criminal, or the dead.
Blog Against Sexism – Some (disjointed) thoughts on Masculinity & Masochism | Living the Liminal 2007
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Although the father of the country, Dr Mahathir was not an indigene, he served the country, and guided it intelligently and with great sophistication.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Although the father of the country, Dr Mahathir was not an indigene, he served the country, and guided it intelligently and with great sophistication.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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First, that the agent of abasement shifts from George the indigene sovereign to the "Sons of Belial."
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
elfflame commented on the word indigene
"She was in the Lakeside Courtyard...within reach of the terra indigene."
Written in Red: a Novel of the Others by Anne Bishop
April 26, 2020