Indie

Definitions: Indie

Indie

Adjective

1. (of pop groups) not affiliated with a major recording company.

Noun

1. A pop group not affiliated with a major record company.

Synonyms: Indie

Synonyms by domain: America-Britain-China-Dutch Indies (military & defense, politics & international affaires), Atlantic,Gulf,West Indies limits (insurance, transportation), British West Indies Sugar Association (food & agriculture), Dutch East Indies (public administration), Dutch East Indies Government, East Indies (geography), Netherlands East Indies (public administration), Netherlands East Indies Government (after 1814), Royal Netherlands Indies Army, Status of Royal Netherlands Indies Army Personnel in Indonesia Act, The West Indies Rum and Spirits Producers Association (food & agriculture), University of the West Indies (education), University of West Indies Centre for Environment and Development, West Indies (geography), West Indies Associated States Council of Ministers (public administration, geography), West Indies Federation (politics & international affaires).

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Crosswords: Indie

Non-English Usage: "Indie" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Czech (India).

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Modern Usage: Indie

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Indie Sex: Taboos (2001)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Indie

Domain	Title
Books	Music Business & Entertainment Law Contracts for Indie Recording Artist, Labels, Songwriters, Composers, Producers, Managers and All Others in the Record Industry. Binder / CD-ROM set (PC & Mac) (reference) The Indie Guidebook to Music Supervision for Films (reference) Movie Awards : The Ultimate, Unofficial Guide to the Oscars, Golden Globes, Critics, Guild and Indie Honors (reference) Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Indie Slate (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Southern Discomfort: Wrestling on the Indie Circuit (reference) Indie Collector's Pack: Pi, Permanent Midnight (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Musiques d'Asie: Chine, Indie, Indonésie, Japon (reference) Right to Chews: Indie Pop Art Do Bubblegum (reference) Indie Label Owner Needs Help! (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Indie

Author	Quotation
Ben Affleck	Too many people subscribe to the indie ideal that spending little money on a movie is 'in and of itself cool,' and that's not true. That's a dangerous misconception.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Indie

"Indie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.07% of the time. "Indie" is used about 236 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.07%	222	20,237
Noun (proper)	5.51%	13	97,576
Adjective (general or positive)	0.42%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	236	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Indie

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "indie": indie-aspirants, indie-cred, indie-dance, indie-danceisms, indie-friendly, indie-heads, indie-kid, indie-kids, indie-pop, indie-poppers, indie-rock.
	Ending with "indie": amer-indie.
	Containing "indie": extra-added-indie-generic-overlay, pushing-indie-limits.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Indie

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
indie	217	indie pop	20
indie music	156	clothing indie	20
indie rock	142	indie artist alternative rock	20
clothes indie	116	indie tab	19
indie nude	110	indie rock band	19
arie indie lyrics	86	indie teen	18
indie radio	75	indie media	16
indie band	59	female indie alternative music	16
indie music online	57	indie porn	15
indie film	55	girl indie	15
indie news	45	indie movie	15
arie indie	45	indie music review	14
alternative folk indie music nwez.net rock	33	indie network	14
indie record label	33	unsigned indie artist	13
alternative indie	28	indie shirt t	13
indie mp3	27	indie music mp3	12
indie label	26	indie nederlands	12
indie artist	24	constitution great indie music pop rock rock tango tango	12
indie rock music	22	indie lyrics	11
alternative indie music rock	21	hair indie style	11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Indie

Derivations
	Words beginning with "indie": indies. (additional references)
	Words containing "indie": lindies, shindies, windier, windiest. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Indie

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-n"
	-1 letter: deni, dine, nide, nidi.
	-2 letters: den, die, din, end.
	-3 letters: de, ed, en, id, in, ne.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-n"
	+1 letter: dieing, divine, indies, indite, inside, iodine, tineid.
	+2 letters: amidine, deicing, denarii, diamine, diazine, dieting, dineric, dingier, dingies, dinkier, dinkies, divined, diviner, divines, dominie, editing, edition, eliding, hinnied, identic, ignited, incised, incited, indices, indigen, indited, inditer, indites, inedita, infidel, infield, infixed, insider, insides, invited, iodines, ionised, ionized, lindies, midline, nitride, tineids, unified, uridine, windier.
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