name
Meaning 1
The Telugu language.
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Usage: historical
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Standard Lemma guide
Gentoo
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noun
Meaning 2
A non-Muslim inhabitant of India, a Hindu; specifically, in Southern India, an ethnic-Telugu.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Examples
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Spiritual Laws” in Essays (First Series), Boston: James Munroe, p. 133, The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing, unless it have an outside badge, — some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat, or Calvinistic prayer- meeting, or philanthropic society, or a great donation, or a high office, or, any how, some wild contrasting action to testify that it is somewhat.
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noun
Meaning 3
The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua), a species of penguin.
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noun
Meaning 4
gentoo penguin
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History
Etymology
Of Anglo-Indian origin (17th century), apparently a borrowing from Portuguese gentio (“heathen”) (compare gentile (“pagan”)).