Indigene

Definitions

An indigenous person; a native.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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