Meaning of Indigene | Babel Free
ˈɪndɪdʒiːnDefinitions
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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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