SUBCONTINENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subcontinent mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBCONTINENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("subcontinent" is a kind of...):

land mass; landmass (a large continuous extent of land)

Domain region:

Greenland; Gronland; Kalaallit Nunaat (the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark)

Bharat; India; Republic of India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)

Holonyms ("subcontinent" is a part of...):

continent (one of the large landmasses of the earth)

 Context examples 

A religious group that encompasses a diverse set of beliefs and traditions that originated in the Indian subcontinent.

(Hindu, NCI Thesaurus)

When the landmass that today is the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia some 50 million years ago, the collision changed the configuration of the continents and altered global climate.

(Tectonic collision 50 million years ago led to widespread ocean changes, National Science Foundation)

From the Americas, the disease spread further, to Africa and back into the Indian subcontinent – almost all places that were, at the time, European colonies.

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

Buried under the Greenland Ice Sheet, the subcontinent's bedrock topography has been estimated using soundings from ice-penetrating radar.

(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)

When complete, the atlas will consist of photos of physical traits of people with many different inherited diseases around the world, including Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, South America and sub-Saharan Africa.

(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, and who was either born in the United States or who was naturalized as a citizen of the United States.

(Asian American, NCI Thesaurus)

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

(Asian, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person having origins in the region of southwest Asia, between the India subcontinent and Europe, including Kuwait, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, lands east of Pakistan or the other countries of the Arabian Peninsula.

(Middle Eastern, NCI Thesaurus)