EAST INDIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does East Indian mean? 

• EAST INDIAN (noun)
  The noun EAST INDIAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of the East Indies

  Familiarity information: EAST INDIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• EAST INDIAN (adjective)
  The adjective EAST INDIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or located in the East Indies

  Familiarity information: EAST INDIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAST INDIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of the East Indies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("East Indian" is a kind of...):

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

Holonyms ("East Indian" is a member of...):

East India; East Indies; Malay Archipelago (a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia)

• EAST INDIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or located in the East Indies

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

East Indies (a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia)

Derivation:

East India (a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia)

 Context examples 

Oh, this is a Havana, and these others are cigars of the peculiar sort which are imported by the Dutch from their East Indian colonies.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An East Indian plant that is a member of the ginger family and is used as a spice and food color.

(Curcuma longa, NCI Dictionary)

East Indian lemongrass oil has antifungal activity.

(East Indian Lemongrass Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

She came of a poor family, but one of some position, for her elder brother was the famous Sir Charles Tregellis, who, having inherited the money of a wealthy East Indian merchant, became in time the talk of the town and the very particular friend of the Prince of Wales.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We turned into a room near at hand (I think it was the identical breakfast-room, made memorable by the brown East Indian sherry), and I heard a voice say, Mr. Copperfield, my daughter Dora, and my daughter Dora's confidential friend!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)