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INDIGENOUS definition: 1. used to refer to, or relating to, the people who originally lived in a place, rather than people…. Learn more.
The meaning of INDIGENOUS is produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment. How to use indigenous in a sentence. Did you know?
In 2004, James Anaya, defined Indigenous peoples as "living descendants of pre-invasion inhabitants of lands now dominated by others. They are culturally distinct groups that find themselves engulfed by other settler societies born of forces of empire and conquest".
INDIGENOUS meaning: 1. used to refer to, or relating to, the people who originally lived in a place, rather than people…. Learn more.
Indigenous definition: originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to). See examples of INDIGENOUS used in a sentence.
Indigenous people or things belong to the country in which they are found, rather than coming there or being brought there from another country.
Use indigenous to describe a plant, animal or person that is native or original to an area. Though Switzerland is known for its chocolates, chocolate, which comes from the cocoa plant, is indigenous to South America.
adjective. /ɪnˈdɪdʒənəs/ (formal) (also Indigenous) (of people and their culture) coming from a particular place and having lived there for a long time before other people came there; relating to, belonging to or developed by these people synonym native. the indigenous peoples/languages of an area. Indigenous Australians/Canadians.
indigenous is a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin indigena, ‑ous suffix. See etymology. Nearby entries. indigeneity, n. 1866–. indigenism, n. 1917–. indigenismo, n. 1936–.
INDIGENOUS meaning: produced, living, or existing naturally in a particular region or environment sometimes + to.
