单词 | pan-indian |
释义 | pan-Indianadj. 1. Of or relating to the whole of India, or to all its ethnic, religious, or linguistic groups. ΚΠ 1885 Homeward Mail from India 4 Aug. 723/1 The gigantic pan-Indian valedictory demonstration that bowed the noble lord out of the country was at once a song of thankfulness to the stranger who loved us and did his best for us. 1945 R. Coupland India 90 The nationalist movement was not supported by all educated Indians: it was not the expression of a pan-Indian patriotism. 1976 P. E. Hook in Indian Linguistics 37 134 For normal spoken Kashmiri neither VSO nor the pan-Indian SOV is the order of meaningful elements in independent sentences. 1996 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 17 May 19 Translations into English or at least, Hindi, have become necessary to achieve a pan-Indian readership. 2. Common to or jointly characteristic of all American Indian peoples or those of a particular region; spec. designating or relating to any of various cultural movements, religious practices, etc., adhered to as expressions of shared identity by large numbers of these peoples. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Amerindian > [adjective] Indian1590 American1611 red1725 American Indian1771 North American Indian1845 red-skinned1869 Amerind1899 Amerindian1899 pan-Indian1921 the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Amerindian > [adjective] > relating to pan-Indian1921 Indianist1922 1921 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 1 230 There was no pan-Indian policy [sc. polity], else from the west and the south and other quarters, Virginia..might have gone down under pressure. 1950 C. S. Brant in Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. 6 222 The peyote cult constitutes the religious symbol of what might be called a ‘Pan Indian’ movement, asserting minority group solidarity within the larger cultural framework. 1971 H. W. Hertzberg Search for Amer. Indian Identity i. 10 The rituals..combined personal, tribal, Pan-Indian, and some white and even Christian elements. 1991 Oxf. Art Jrnl. 14 54/1 A white woman, Dorothy Dunn..helped to institute a new Pan-Indian style that was meant to supercede [sic] the tribal art of various nations. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1885 |
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