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Anglo-Indian English

Anglo-Indian English noun: the variety of English used in South Asia during the colonial era, having as a feature numerous borrowings from Hindustani and other local languages.

Noun

Anglo-Indian English (uncountable)

  1. The variety of English used in South Asia during the colonial era, having as a feature numerous borrowings from Hindustani and other local languages.
    • To suggest that the term could have come from Anglo-Indian English into British thieves' cant and Chinese Pidgin English while also becoming widely dispersed into British dialect use would be to beg the question.2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255

Words that rhyme with Anglo-Indian English

Questions about Anglo-Indian English

What does Anglo-Indian English mean?
Anglo-Indian English means the variety of English used in South Asia during the colonial era, having as a feature numerous borrowings from Hindustani and other local languages.
What part of speech is Anglo-Indian English?
Anglo-Indian English is a noun.

Words near Anglo-Indian English in the dictionary

  1. Anglo-French
  2. Anglo-Frisian
  3. Anglo-Frisian brightening
  4. anglo-helvetium
  5. Anglo-Indian
  6. Anglo-Indian English
  7. Anglo-Indians
  8. Anglo-Irish
  9. Anglo-Israelism
  10. Anglo-Israelite
  11. Anglo-Israelites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Anglo-Indian English (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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