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 Dictionary entry overview: What does India mean? 

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

1. a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bharat; India; Republic of India

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "India"):

Madras; Tamil Nadu (a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras)

Calcutta; Kolkata (the largest city in India and one of the largest cities in the world; located in eastern India; suffers from poverty and overcrowding)

Bombay; Mumbai (a city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea; India's 2nd largest city (after Calcutta); has the only natural deep-water harbor in western India)

Agra (a city in northern India; former capital of the Mogul empire; site of the Taj Mahal)

Hyderabad (a city in south central India in Andhra Pradesh)

Chennai; Madras (a city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal; formerly Madras)

Lucknow (a city in northern India in Uttar Pradesh; during the Indian Mutiny its British residents were besieged by Indian insurgents)

Mysore (a city in southern India to the southwest of Bangalore)

Salem (a city in southern India)

Andhra Pradesh (a state of southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal)

Bihar (a state of northeastern India)

Goa (a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony)

Gujarat; Gujerat (an industrialized state in western India that includes parts of Bombay)

Jabalpur; Jubbulpore (an industrial city of central India to the southeast of Delhi)

Uttar Pradesh (a state in northern India)

Maharashtra (a state in west-central India)

Orissa (state in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal)

Nilgiri Hills (hills in southern India)

West Bengal (a state in eastern India)

Cashmere; Jammu and Kashmir; Kashmir (an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India)

Great Indian Desert; Thar Desert (a desert to the east of the Indus River in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan)

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)

Himalaya; Himalaya Mountains; Himalayas (a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain)

Kamet (a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high))

Nanda Devi (a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,660 feet high))

Bangalore (an industrial city in south central India (west of Chennai))

Tien Shan; Tyan Shan (a major mountain range of central Asia; extends 1,500 miles)

Pobeda Peak; Pobedy Peak (a mountain peak in the Tien Shan mountains in northern India (24,406 feet high))

Assam (state in northeastern India)

Karnataka; Mysore (state in southern India; formerly Mysore)

Manipur (state in northeastern India)

Sikkim (a state in northeastern India in the Himalaya Mountains between Nepal and Bhutan)

Canara; Kanara (a historical region of southwestern India on the west coast)

Punjab (a historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan)

Delhi; New Delhi (a city in north central India)

Hindustan (northern region of India where Hinduism predominates)

Meronyms (members of "India"):

Indian (a native or inhabitant of India)

Domain member region:

casteless; outcaste (not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society)

ayah ((in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children)

subcontinent (a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent)

dacoit; dakoit (a member of an armed gang of robbers)

jawan ((India) a private soldier or male constable)

mahout (the driver and keeper of an elephant)

malik (the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent)

nabob; nawab (a governor in India during the Mogul empire)

wallah (usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing)

crore (the number that is represented as a one followed by 7 zeros; ten million)

pucka; pukka (absolutely first class and genuine)

dacoity; dakoity (robbery by a gang of armed dacoits)

ashram ((India) a place of religious retreat for Hindus)

Mogul empire (an empire established by the Mogul conquerors of India that reigned from 1526 to 1857)

panchayat; panchayet; punchayet (a village council in India or southern Pakistan)

National Volunteers Association; Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (an all-male organization begun in 1925 to foster nationalism in India's Hindus)

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

Movement for Revenge; Tareekh e Kasas (an organization of Muslims in India who killed Hindus in September 2002; believed to have ties with Muslim terrorists in Pakistan)

al-Ummah (a terrorist group formed in India in 1992; is believed to be responsible for bombings in southern India in 1998)

chapati; chapatti (flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle)

mulligatawny (a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base)

godown ((in India and Malaysia) a warehouse)

battle of Plassey; Plassey (the victory in 1757 by the British under Clive over Siraj-ud-daula that established British supremacy over Bengal)

battle of Panipat; Panipat (battle in which the ruler of Afghanistan defeated the Mahrattas in 1761)

Lucknow (the British residents of Lucknow were besieged by Indian insurgents during the Indian Mutiny (1857))

Indian Mutiny; Sepoy Mutiny (discontent with British administration in India led to numerous mutinies in 1857 and 1858; the revolt was put down after several battles and sieges (notably the siege at Lucknow))

Holonyms ("India" 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)

Holonyms ("India" is a member of...):

British Commonwealth; Commonwealth of Nations (an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown)

British Empire (a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand)

Derivation:

Indian (of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures)

 Context examples 

A shrub native to China and India.

(Ephedra, NCI Dictionary)

Extracts of this oleoresin have been used as a folk medicine for centuries in Ayurdevic medicine in India.

(Boswellia serrata, NCI Thesaurus)

It was Mr. Jack Maldon; and Mr. Jack Maldon was not at all improved by India, I thought.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

India needs region-specific anti-venoms to deal with a large variety of venomous snakes in order to reduce death and morbidity from snakebite, says a new study.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)

Researchers examined the last 50 years’ growth of a stalagmite in the Mawmluh cave of India’s Meghalaya state.

(Cave stalagmites reveal India’s rainfall secrets, SciDev.Net)

I often think I should like to, especially since my hair was cut, so if you ever miss us, you may advertise for two boys and look among the ships bound for India.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Most bidis are made in India, and they come in different flavors.

(Bidi, NCI Dictionary)

A country in Southern Asia, between China and India.

(Bhutan, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The advance brings hope for countries like India where clean drinking water is a big issue.

(Novel Technology Uses Bacteria for Cleaning Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For example, the cancer is seen in Reunion, but this was where European travellers would stop off on the way to India.

(The curious tale of the cancer ‘parasite’ that sailed the seas, University of Cambridge)