Home › Words › I › indioindioindio means A city in Riverside County, California, United States.EtymologyBorrowed from Spanish indio, Portuguese índio.nameA city in Riverside County, California, United States.nounA member of one of various indigenous peoples in the Americas, Pacific, and East Asia formerly subject to Spain or Portugal, specifically a Native American in Mexico or Brazil, or an indigenous inhabitant of the Philippines.e.g.“On the sugar estates the índios were then annihilated by the infections the Portuguese had brought from Europe.” — 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 108:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.indigena 71% match — A native, local, indigenous inhabitant, aboriginal. vs indio →amerindian 64% match — American Indian. vs indio →amerindish 61% match — Of or pertaining to Native American people. vs indio →indo 61% match — A Eurasian person living in or connected with Indonesia, especially (historical) a person in the former Dutch East Indies who held European legal status but was of mixed Dutch and indigenous Indonesian descent, or a descendant of such a person. vs indio →amerindigenous 60% match — Native American, American Indian. Used especially in genetics. vs indio →indianian 60% match — A native or resident of the state of Indiana in the United States of America. vs indio →hindian 60% match — A native Indian (plural often same as singular) vs indio →indigene 60% match — Indigenous. vs indio →