Injian

Adjective

Indian (comparative more Indian, superlative most Indian)

1. Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
   • An IAF representative told an Indian parliamentary committee that due to the Ukraine war a “major delivery” from Moscow “is not going to take place.”2023 March 24, Rhea Mogul, “Russia can’t meet India arms deliveries due to Ukraine war, Indian Air Force says”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2024

   Synonyms:

   East Indian, Indic, Hindian, Desi, Indish

2. (obsolete) Eastern; Oriental.
   • The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
3. (proscribed) Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
   • The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns.1879, Friedrich August Flückiger et al., Pharmacographia..., page 346

   Synonyms:

   Native American, Amerindian, First Nation

4. (Canada, US, proscribed) Made with Indian corn or maize.
   • Indian bread
5. Designating any of various chess openings now characterised by black's attempt to control the board through knights and fianchettoed bishops rather than with a central pawn advance.

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