Khasi
Americannoun
-
a traditionally matrilineal Indigenous people of Meghalaya in northeastern India, now also residing in Assam and in parts of Bangladesh.
-
the Austroasiatic language of the Khasi.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Khasi
First recorded in 1780–90; from Khasi, a self-designation
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He practices the Khasi faith and his wife is Christian.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024
The local Khasi name for the betting is “tim,” derived from the English word team.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2023
Watson walked the living tree-root bridges that can withstand adverse weather better than any human-made structure, and that allow the Khasi hill tribe in Northern India to travel between villages during the monsoon floods.
From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2020
He studied competitiveness in women and girls in two isolated, and wildly different cultures: the patriarchal Maasai tribe of Tanzania, and the matrilineal Khasi tribe in India.
From The Verge • Aug. 16, 2017
The Garo hills form the western part, and the Khasi and Jaintia hills the central and western parts, of the range as there depicted.
From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Davison, Charles
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
