Gond

American  

[gond] / gɒnd /

noun

1. a member of an aboriginal people of Dravidian descent, in central India and the Deccan.

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adjective

1. of or relating to an aboriginal people of Dravidian descent, in central India and the Deccan.

Gond British  

/ ɡɒnd /

noun

1. a member of a formerly tribal people now living in scattered enclaves throughout S central India

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Etymology

Origin of Gond

First recorded in 1810–15; from Hindi, from Sanskirit goṇḍa “fleshy navel, person having a fleshy navel, Gond”

Example Sentences

According to a slip from the hospital, Shyamlal Gond was brought in dead at 10.02 local time on 29 January.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

“My baby will be safer,” she said in Gondi, a language spoken by an estimated 13 million members of the Indigenous Gond community.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2022

Mr. Neti, 38, pressed on earnestly, suggesting that he could demonstrate the internet’s potential by Googling the history of the Gond tribe, to which they both belonged.

From New York Times • May 21, 2017

OK, it’s one of the two ancient continents that existed on Earth 180 million years ago and it’s named after the modern-day Gond people of central Asia, so there’s some science to it.

From Time • Mar. 13, 2014

About 200 years after Sangram Sah’s time, Bakht Buland, the Gond chieftain of a principality seated at Deogarh in Chhindwara, having visited Delhi, set about introducing the civilization he had there admired.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various