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indigene

  • /ˈɪndɪdʒiːn/ UK

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From Middle French indigène, from Latin indigena.

adjective more indigene · most indigene

  1. Indigenous.

noun indigenes

  1. An indigenous person; a native. 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.

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noun a native

DeutschIndigener, Indigene, Eingeborener
Italianoindigeno, indigena

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@misc{indigene_2026,
  title = {indigene},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/indigene},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}