Banyan

Quick meaning: Banyan is a noun meaning An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.

Meaning

An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.

More Meanings

1. A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots.
2. A type of loose gown worn in India.
3. (India, Pakistan) A vest; an undershirt; a singlet.
4. (British, naval slang, dated) A camping excursion on shore, to give a ship's crew a break from shipboard routine.
5. Various other trees of the Ficus subgenus Urostigma, especially Ficus pertusa (Central American banyan) and Ficus microcarpa (Chinese banyan or Malayan banyan).

Example Sentences

We climb and then descend; we pass by the great banyan which, like Atlas, settling himself powerfully on his contorted haunches, seems awaiting with knee and shoulder the burden of the sky.

It was an honest letter, written by an honest man, then stewing in the Plains on two hundred rupees a month (for he allowed his wife eight hundred and fifty), and in a silk banian and cotton trousers.

Word Forms

• banyans
• banian
• bannian

Synonyms for banyan

Depending on context, synonyms include banian.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include banian, bannian, bunya, banjari, bunniah, baniya.

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