indigen

Other forms of indigen

plural

indigens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about indigen

What does indigen mean?

indigen means "an indigenous person who was born in a particular place".

How many syllables are in indigen?

indigen has 3 syllables: in-di-gen. The stress falls on "in".

What is another word for indigen?

Close synonyms include native, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indigen a common word?

indigen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.