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Definition of Assamese

1. Noun. Native or inhabitant of the state of Assam in northeastern India.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Assam or its people or culture or language.

3. Noun. The Magadhan language spoken by the Assamese people; closely related to Bengali.

Definition of Assamese

1. a. Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants.

Definition of Assamese

1. Adjective. Of, from or relating to the northeast-Indian state of Assam, or the region for which it is named ¹

2. Adjective. In or relating to its majority people's Indo-Iranian language ¹

3. Proper noun. The Indo-Aryan language spoken by the majority people in the state of Assam, NE India ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Assamese

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Literary usage of Assamese

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1899)
"ray way of Contrast we give ^^ a picture of some Garo young men in their heathen condition, and some of our Assamese preachers. In every heathen village on ..."

2. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1828)
"AN Assamese stone-cutter has shown me a mode of blasting rocks, which I think superior to any thing ... The following is the result of the Assamese plan. ..."

3. The Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1855)
"Desire of the Assamese for schools, if at no cost. Nowgong. ... Are the Assamese so miserably poor that they can do nothing for their own improvement? ..."

4. Indian Caste by John Wilson (1877)
"... with him in his great evangelistic and educational enter- prize at Calcutta.* 10.—The Assamese and South-East Border ... known as the Assamese Br ..."

5. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"The Assamese form a comparatively small part of the labourers employed in the tea-gardens, coolies being imported from Bengal for this purpose. ..."

6. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Sir David Brewster (1828)
"Account of the Assamese Method of Blasting Mocks. Communicated by a Correspondent in India. An Assamese stone-cutter has shown me a mode of blasting rocks, ..."

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