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A large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent
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subcontinent
Word definitions for subcontinent in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sub-continent , 1845, from sub- + continent (n.). Related: Subcontinental .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A large landmass which is either smaller than a continent (such as Greenland), or part of an even larger continent (such as the Indian subcontinent). n. (label en usually with ''the'') The Indian subcontinent; South Asia.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ During the days of the Raj, a train journey across the subcontinent could take a week. ▪ It is a subcontinent of many religions, many languages, many ethnic groups, and many skin colors. ▪ Later, it tried in vain to conquer the ...
Usage examples of subcontinent.
From a ratty film poster a life-size Bollywood star grinned smugly at the rickety iron bed, the mattress stained with subcontinents.
Checked out the rumors that there might be some recision on our subcontinent wheat-rust grant.
Sanskrit, Pali, Awadhi commonspeak, Bangla, Oriya, Tamil, Kannad, Marathi, Malayali, and a half-dozen other dialects of the subcontinent.
When they fell silent, unable to name a tree, the seer supplied its name, reeling off a succession of alternatives in Sanskrit, Pali, Awadhi commonspeak, Bangla, Oriya, Tamil, Kannad, Marathi, Malayali, and a half-dozen other dialects of the subcontinent.
Martyrdom and pledged to establish nineteen spiritual assemblies in the British Isles, double the number of assemblies in the Indian subcontinent, establish ninety-five new centers of the Faith in Persia, convert the groups in Bahrein, Mecca and Kabul into assemblies and plant the banner of the Faith in the Arabian territories of Yemen, Oman, Ahsa and Kuweit.
From a ratty film poster a life-size Bollywood star grinned smugly at the rickety iron bed, the mattress stained with subcontinents.
Stile wondered whether the citizens of ancient Harappa, in the Indian subcontinent of Earth, had had a similar attitude.
If Gandhi had not lived to lead the reunification of the subcontinent after the death of Jinnah in 1948, would that strange two-headed nation called Pakistan actually have endured?
The Chairman had shown proof that the United States was finishing a base for Trident submarines at Islas Piedras that would be a threat to not only the Asian subcontinent but Africa as well.
Over the New Babylon subcontinent it had appeared as a fleet above a small town in the Massif, making lightspeed jumps back and forth between five separate points so quickly that it was seen as five separate ships.
He had picked up some odd indicators from the coast of one of the small subcontinents in the southern hemisphere.
What Haroun achieved in Baghdad streets, Parvati‑the‑witch made possible for me, as we flew through the air‑lanes of the subcontinent.
Located at the heart of the subcontinent, Bhopal was hundreds of miles from the nearest border and, although the state capital, hardly a prime military target.
Water control systems also appear to have been associated with centralized political organization in some other areas of the world, including the Indus Valley of the Indian subcontinent, the Yellow and Yangtze Valleys of China, the Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica, and the coastal desert of Peru.
Only later did domesticates derived from indigenous species of the Indian subcontinent, such as humped cattle and sesame, appear in Indus Valley farming communities.