<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Also called American Indian, Amerind, Amerindian, Native American.</li><li>a member of any of the aboriginal peoples of the Americas, especially of subarctic North America, excluding the Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut.</li><li>any of the Indigenous languages of the American Indians.</li><li>a member of any of the peoples native to or inhabiting India or the East Indies.</li><li>a citizen of the Republic of India.</li><li>Slang: a person who performs a required task or carries out the instructions of superiors: We have too many chiefs and not enough Indians.</li><li>Astronomy: the constellation Indus.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of, relating to, or characteristic of the American Indians or their languages.</li><li>of, relating to, or characteristic of India or the East Indies.</li><li>made of Indian corn: Indian meal.</li><li>Zoogeography: oriental.</li><li>Phytogeography: belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising India south of the Himalayas, and Pakistan and Sri Lanka.</li></ul>