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Adivasis

Adivasis is the plural of Adivasi.

Meaning of Adivasi

Noun

Adivasi (plural Adivasis or Adivasi)

  1. A member of a heterogeneous set of ethnic and tribal groups considered the aboriginal population of South Asia.
    • These new set of decisions may or may not be put into operation, but the process of constructing suspicion and othering of the Jummas is already in place. Jummas cannot be called “adibashis", Jummas cannot be recognised in the constitution, Jummas have to be called “khudro nri-goshthi"...2017 May 2, "Can the Jummas of Bangladesh speak?", Jumjournal

Questions about Adivasis

What is Adivasis the plural of?
Adivasis is the plural of Adivasi.

Words near Adivasis in the dictionary

  1. aditus
  2. Aditya
  3. Adityas
  4. Adiv
  5. Adivasi
  6. Adivasis
  7. Adivay
  8. adive
  9. adives
  10. ADIZ
  11. adiós

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Adivasis (page history and authors); Adivasi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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