Indigenous

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Native to a land, especially before colonization.

   “The Aboriginals were indigenous to Victoria before the World War.”

2. sıfat In particular, of or relating to a people (or their language or culture) that inhabited a region prior to the arrival of people of other cultures which became dominant (e.g., through colonialism), and which maintains a distinct culture.

   “The Ainu are the indigenous ethnic group of Japan's Hokkaido Island.”

3. sıfat Innate, inborn.

   “She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.”

4. sıfat Original to a geographical area.

   “That style of pottery is indigenous to that region.”

5. sıfat Alternative letter-case form of indigenous (“native, relating to the native inhabitants of a land”).

   “Many Indigenous people use the day not only to remember the suffering inflicted in the 1620s but also to point out the struggles that Indigenous people continue to face today in the form of, on top of so much else, violence against women and girls.”