Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

indigene

/ˈɪndɪdʒiːn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English

Syllables: in-di-gene
IPA: /ˈɪndɪdʒiːn/

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

noun

An indigenous person; a native.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

From Middle French indigène, from Latin indigena.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈɪndɪdʒiːn/

Inflected Forms

more indigene (comparative) most indigene (superlative) indigenes (plural)

Derived Forms

indigeneship indigenocide nonindigene

Synonyms

native indigen aborigine aboriginal

Questions

How do you pronounce indigene?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɪndɪdʒiːn/.
What does indigene mean?: Indigenous.
Where does indigene come from?: From Middle French indigène, from Latin indigena.

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