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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 In·do-Eu·ro·pe·an /ˌɪndoˌjʊrəˈpiən/
 (a.)印歐語系的印歐語系

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 In·do-Eu·ro·pe·an a. Aryan; -- applied to the languages of India and Europe which are derived from the prehistoric Aryan language; also, pertaining to the people or nations who speak these languages; as, the Indo-European or Aryan family.
    The common origin of the Indo-European nations.   --Tylor.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 In·do-Eu·ro·pe·an. A member of one of the Caucasian races of Europe or India speaking an Indo-European language.
    Professor Otto Schrader . . . considers that the oldest probable domicile of the Indo-Europeans is to be sought for on the common borderland of Asia and of Europe, -- in the steppe country of southern Russia.    --Census of India, 1901.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Indo-European
      adj 1: of or relating to the Indo-European language family [syn: Indo-Germanic]
      2: of or relating to the former Indo-European people;
         "Indo-European migrations" [syn: Indo-Aryan, Aryan]
      n 1: a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo
           European [syn: Aryan]
      2: the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken
         throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and
         southern Asia [syn: Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite]