Indie
[indi]
Definition
(noun.) an independent film company not associated with an established studio.
(noun.) a pop group not affiliated with a major record company.
(adj.) (of pop groups) not affiliated with a major recording company .
Editor: Tess--From WordNet
Examples
- I love to hear my uncle talk of the West Indies. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- What the Cape of Good Hope is between Europe and every part of the East Indies, Batavia is between the principal countries of the East Indies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The need for labour upon the plantations of the West Indies and the south was imperative. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She presently returned, and said, that Mr. Brownlow had sold off his goods, and gone to the West Indies, six weeks before. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He took me with him to the West Indies, set me free, and married me. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Deliver this letter to the agent when you reach Liverpool, and let me advise you, gentlemen, not to be too knowing in the West Indies. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The lands in America and the West Indies, indeed, are, in general, not tenanted nor leased out to farmers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It was estimated that in 1770 there were fifteen thousand slaves in Britain, mostly brought over by their owners from the West Indies and Virginia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Osborne went to the West Indies, where he became an eminent lawyer, and made money. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I went down to Ramsgate for a week with a friend last September, just after my return from the West Indies. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I think I shall trade, also, said he, putting his thumbs in his waist-coat pockets, to the West Indies, for sugar, tobacco, and rum. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He's learned his trade well, among the pirates in the West Indies. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Craven has got me into the West Indies again. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- That is to say, cried Marianne contemptuously, he has told you, that in the East Indies the climate is hot, and the mosquitoes are troublesome. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The most barbarous nations either of Africa or of the East Indies, were shepherds; even the Hottentots were so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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