Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Assam or its people, language, or culture.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Assam.
- noun A person of Assamese ancestry.
- noun The Indic language of the Assamese.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Assam or its inhabitants.
- A native or the natives of Assam, an eastern province of British India adjoining Burma and Tibet.
- Pertaining to the languages of Assam.
- noun A language of Assam, one of the Aryan family, akin to Bengali.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, from or relating to the northeast-Indian state of Assam, or the region for which it is named
- adjective In or relating to its majority people's Indo-Iranian language
- proper noun The
Indo-Aryan language spoken by the majority people in the state ofAssam , NEIndia
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun native or inhabitant of the state of Assam in northeastern India
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Assam or its people or culture or language
- noun the Magadhan language spoken by the Assamese people; closely related to Bengali
Etymologies
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Examples
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If they do not have love for fellow assamese, what then are they talking about fighting for Assam and Assamese?
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If they do not have love for fellow assamese, what then are they talking about fighting for Assam and Assamese?
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Parliament's computerised interpreter system is designed to translate proceedings simultaneously from English to Hindi and vice versa, and from other languages such as Assamese, Kannada or Tamil into Hindi and English.
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Anupam Nath/Associated Press Assamese dancers perform Bihu, a local folk dance, during Rongali Bihu celebrations in Guwahati, April 14, 2011.
The Indian New Year 2011
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European Pressphoto Agency A girl played a traditional musical instrument made of bamboo while performing the 'Bihu Dance' for Rongali Bihu, the festival which marks the the Assamese New Year, in Guwahati, India, April 14, 2011.
The Indian New Year 2011
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Because the Meghalayans were fighting with the Assamese (and because the plane out of Meghalaya, Vayudoot Airlines, was too scary to fly again) I had to take a bus into neighboring Assam.
Traveling in India: Removing the Mask « Colleen Anderson 2009
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Anupam Nath/Associated Press Lal Krishna Advani, Bharatiya Janata Party leader, is presented with a traditional Assamese hat by party workers at a public meeting in theeastern Indian city of Gauhati, Assam , Thursday.
India in Pictures 2011
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The ad campaign is being aired in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Assamese and Oriya so that it can reach out to the masses.
Global Voices in English » Celebrity Power in Indian Elections 2009
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Some of the video clips are in Assamese, and even though many in the crowd only speak Bengali, the language barrier does not seem to dissuade them from watching.
Hanna Ingber Win: India: Three Wives, 10 Kids Is Enough 2010
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Hurd's program enables speakers of 59 different languages -- including Assamese (India), Basque (Spain), Igbo (Nigeria), and Inuktitut (Canada) -- to use Microsoft's products.
Nataly Kelly: How Translation Is Changing the World Nataly Kelly 2010
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