Indianism

countable uncountable South-America

A word or phrase peculiar to a language spoken in India, such as Indian English. / (South America) The idealized portrayal of indigenous people as national heroes.

Japanese Meaning

インド英語など、インドで使われる言語に特有の単語や表現 / 南米において先住民族を国民的な英雄として理想化する描写

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The editor asked him to remove the Indianism from his article to make it clearer for international readers.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

編集者は、国際的な読者にとって分かりやすくするために、彼の記事からインド英語特有の表現を削除するように頼んだ。

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A word or phrase peculiar to a language spoken in India, such as Indian English.

What this means is that academic interest in Indian English lexis has been largely confined to "Indianisms".

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(South America) The idealized portrayal of indigenous people as national heroes.

Indianisms

（ plural ）

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