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Definition: Indigene |
IndigeneNoun1. A person who was born in a particular place; an indigenous person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "indigene" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1947. (references) |
Etymology: Indigene \In"di*gene\, noun. [Latin expression indigena: compare to the French expression indig[`e]ne. See Indigenous.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: IndigeneSynonyms: indigen (n), native (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inhabitant | Native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones; Englishman, John Bull; newcomer; (stranger). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Indigene |
| English words defined with "indigene": Indigeen. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Hopital Indigene de Baragwanath, Johannesburg, South Africa. : Connaissance de l'Afrique du Sud - pamphlet with halftones.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| 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 |
indigene | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "indigene"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i vendës (aboriginal, autochthonal, autochthonous, indigenous), vendës (aboriginal, aborigine, autochthon, native, native born). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | беднотия (beggary, poorness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | indigeneay indígena (aboriginal, denizen, home-brewed, indigenous, native, natives), pobreza (bareness, destitution, narrow goods, penurity, penury, poorness, poverty, sorriness). (various references) туземец (aboriginal, native, tawny-moor). (various references) urođenik (native), domorodac (aboriginal, native). (various references) indígena (aboriginal, domestic, indian, indigenous, native), aborigen (aboriginal, aborigine). (various references) inföding (aboriginal, aborigine, native). (various references) тубілець (aboriginal, native), місцева тварина (native). (various references) vật bản địa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "indigene": indigenes. (additional references) | |
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"Indigene" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: idigene, imipenem, indagini, Indienne, indige, indigenize, indigens, indigente, indigine, indigne, Iodogen, Ndimene. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "indigene" (pronounced 'In"di*gene'): Alpigene, Amphigene, Cymogene, Epigene, Heterogene, Homogene, Hypogene, Nematogene, osmogene, Pathogene, phosgene, Quadragene, Rhombogene, Sagene, Seltzo-gene, Vitellogene, Zymogene. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-i-n-n" | |
-1 letter: engined, indigen, needing. | |
-2 letters: dieing, dining, ending, engine, ginned, indene, indign, niding. | |
-3 letters: deign, diene, dinge, genie, genii, indie, inned. | |
-4 letters: dene, deni, dine, ding, edge, eide, geed, gene, gied, gien, need, nene, nide, nidi, nine. | |
-5 letters: dee, den, die, dig, din, end, eng, ged, gee, gen, gid, gie, gin, inn, nee. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-i-i-n-n" | |
+1 letter: deveining, indigence, indigenes. | |
+2 letters: bedizening, denizening, evidencing, inbreeding, indigences, indigenize, ingredient, redefining, reindexing, rewidening. | |
+3 letters: befriending, delineating, determining, dinginesses, domineering, inbreedings, indigenized, indigenizes, ingredients, interceding, predefining, redesigning, rereminding, sedimenting, tenderizing, undeceiving. | |
+4 letters: defeminizing, demonetizing, differencing, guanethidine, interbedding, interlending, intermingled, linebreeding, meningitides, misrendering, predestining, remaindering, slenderizing, ungentrified. | |
+5 letters: bindingnesses, bioengineered, credentialing, demagnetizing, demyelinating, desensitizing, disheartening, domineeringly, fingerprinted, guanethidines, interbreeding, intermeddling, interpleading, linebreedings, overdesigning, reconsidering, redetermining, reidentifying. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 64 69 67 65 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.. .. --. . -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n d i g e n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0064 0069 0067 0065 006E 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380707573718071 |
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