noun
- native inhabitants of a particular region or country; indigenous people
Usage: formal; plural form of indigene
Examples
- The government established policies to protect the rights of the indigenes.
- Anthropologists studied the traditional customs of the local indigenes.
- The indigenes have lived in this valley for thousands of years.
- Colonial expansion often displaced the indigenes from their ancestral lands.
- The museum displays artifacts created by the region’s indigenes.
- Legal frameworks now recognize the land claims of indigenes worldwide.