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hindoo

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Adjective, Noun

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Hin=doo

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun hindoo has 2 senses

hindoo(n = noun.person) hindu, hindustani - a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India; Array

is a member of hindustan

is a kind of asian, asiatic

has particulars: brahman, brahmin, kshatriya, rajpoot, rajput, shudra, sudra, vaisya

Derived form adjective hindoo₁

hindoo(n = noun.person) hindu - a person who adheres to Hinduism; Array

is a member of hindooism, hinduism

is a kind of religious person

has particulars: swami, chela, hare krishna, shaktist, shivaist, vaishnava, saddhu, sadhu, sannyasi, sannyasin, sanyasi

Derived form adjective hindoo₁

Adjective hindoo has 1 sense

hindoo(a = adj.pert) hindi, hindu - of or relating to or supporting Hinduism; "the Hindu faith"

Derived forms noun hindoo₂, noun hindoo₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

hindoo, n. [Per. Hindū, fr. Hind, Hindūstān, India. Cf. Indian.].

A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

hindoo, archaic var. of HINDU.

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