EAST INDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does East India mean? 

• EAST INDIA (noun)
  The noun EAST INDIA has 1 sense:

1. a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia

  Familiarity information: EAST INDIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAST INDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

East India; East Indies; Malay Archipelago

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "East India"):

Sunda Islands (a chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago)

Borneo; Kalimantan (3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago)

Meronyms (members of "East India"):

East Indian (a native or inhabitant of the East Indies)

Malay; Malayan (a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago)

Domain member region:

curry ((East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice)

Holonyms ("East India" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

Derivation:

East Indian (of or relating to or located in the East Indies)

 Context examples 

I have to go up to town in any case, for there is a poor devil of an East India Company’s officer who has written to me in his distress.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He described it as an apartment of the most sumptuous nature, and said that he had drunk brown East India sherry there, of a quality so precious as to make a man wink.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)