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indigene en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɪndɪdʒiːn/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle French indigène, from Latin indigena.

Meanings

1. Indigenous.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
most indigene	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
more indigene	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic

Deriveds

nonindigene · indigenocide · indigeneship

indigene en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɪndɪdʒiːn/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle French indigène, from Latin indigena.

Meanings

1. An indigenous person; a native.
   • The price for all this chutzpah was that Malraux then had to take up the cause of the colonial indigenes as if it really mattered to him. 2005 April 10, Christopher Hitchens, “André Malraux: One Man's Fate”, in New York Times Book Review:
   • While Manuel sat skinning his birds of an afternoon, generally surrounded by a little crowd of Malays and Sassaks (as the indigenes of Lombock are termed), he often held forth to them with the air of a teacher, and was listened to with profound attention. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 250:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
indigenes	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (17)

mi tāngatawhenua (a native) · pl autochton (a native) · it indigena (a native) · pl tubylec (a native) · mk староседелец (a native) · pl aborygen (a native) · de Eingeborener (a native) · bg туземец (a native) · de Indigene (a native) · pl autochtonka (a native) · mi tangatawhenua (a native) · pl aborygenka (a native) · it indigeno (a native) · pl tubylczyni (a native) · mi iwi toi (a native) · de Indigener (a native) · mi toi (a native)