EAST PAKISTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does East Pakistan mean? 

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

1. a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971. In local language, 'Bangladesh' means Land of the Bengalis ('Bangla' means Bengali, 'desh' means land or country)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAST PAKISTAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971. In local language, 'Bangladesh' means Land of the Bengalis ('Bangla' means Bengali, 'desh' means land or country)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bangla Desh; Bangladesh; East Pakistan; People's Republic of Bangladesh

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "East Pakistan"):

capital of Bangladesh; Dacca; Dhaka (the capital and largest city of Bangladesh)

Chittagong (a port city and industrial center in southeastern Bangladesh on the Bay of Bengal)

Brahmaputra; Brahmaputra River (an Asian river; flows into the Bay of Bengal)

Ganges; Ganges River (an Asian river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus)

Meronyms (members of "East Pakistan"):

Bangladeshi (a native or inhabitant of Bangladesh)

Bengali ((Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus))

Domain member region:

Hindooism; Hinduism (the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal)

madrasa; madrasah (Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan)

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

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)