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Meaning of INDONESIAN

Pronunciation:  `indu'neezhun

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia
  2. [n]  a native or inhabitant of Indonesia
  3. [adj]  of or relating to or characteristic of Indonesia or its people or languages
 
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 Synonyms: Bahasa, Bahasa Indonesia
 
 See Also: Asian, Asiatic, Balinese, Dutch East Indies, Indonesia, Javan, Javanese, Javanese, Malay, Republic of Indonesia, Sumatran, Sundanese

 

 

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
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  1. \In`do*ne"sian\, n.
    A member of a race forming the chief pre-Malay population of
    the Malay Archipelago, and probably sprung from a mixture of
    Polynesian and Mongoloid immigrants. According to Keane, the
    autochthonous Negritos were largely expelled by the Caucasian
    Polynesians, themselves followed by Mongoloid peoples of
    Indo-Chinese affinities, from mixture with whom sprang the
    {Indonesian race}.
             The term Indonesian, introduced by Logan to
             designate the light-colored non-Malay inhabitants of
             the Eastern Archipelago, is now used as a convenient
             collective name for all the peoples of Malaysia and
             Polynesia who are neither Malay nor Papuans, but of
             Caucasic type. . . . The true Indonesians are of
             tall stature (5 ft. 10 in.), muscular frame, rather
             oval features, high, open forehead, large straight
             or curved nose, large full eyes always horizontal
             and with no trace of the third lid, light brown
             complexion (cinnamon or ruddy brown), long black
             hair, not lank but often slightly curled or wavy,
             skull generally brachycephalous like that of the
             melanochroic European.                --A. H. Keane.
             The Indonesians [of the Philippines], with the
             tribal population of some 251, 200, live almost
             exclusively on the great island of Mindanao. They
             are not only physically superior to the Negritos,
             but to the peoples of the Malayan race as well, and
             are, as a rule, quite intelligent.    --Rep. Phil.
                                                   Com., 1902.
    
  2. \In`do*ne"sian\, a. [Indo- + Gr. ? island.]
    Of or pertaining to Indonesia or Indonesians.
    
 
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