Indianism
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
Indianism (countable and uncountable, plural Indianisms)
- A word or phrase peculiar to a language spoken in India, such as Indian English.
- Hyponym: babuism
- 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes[1], page 305:
- What this means is that academic interest in Indian English lexis has been largely confined to "Indianisms".
- (South America) The idealized portrayal of indigenous people as national heroes.
Coordinate terms edit
- (dialectisms) dialectism; Americanism (Yankeeism, Yankism), Australianism, Britishism (anglicism, Briticism), Canadianism, Indianism, Irishism, Scotticism, southernism, New Zealandism
Translations edit
idealized portrayal
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