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INDIA
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I. (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
Synonyms:
Bharat; India; Republic of India
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "India"):
Jabalpur; Jubbulpore (an industrial city of central India to the southeast of Delhi)
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)
Madras; Tamil Nadu (a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras)
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))
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))
Nanda Devi (a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,660 feet high))
Assam (state in northeastern India)
Karnataka; Mysore (state in southern India; formerly Mysore)
Manipur (state in northeastern India)
Hindustan (northern region of India where Hinduism predominates)
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)
Bangalore (an industrial city in south central India (west of Chennai))
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)
pucka; pukka (absolutely first class and genuine)
crore (the number that is represented as a one followed by 7 zeros; ten million)
wallah (usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing)
nabob; nawab (a governor in India during the Mogul empire)
malik (the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent)
mahout (the driver and keeper of an elephant)
jawan ((India) a private soldier or male constable)
dacoit; dakoit (a member of an armed gang of robbers)
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)
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))
dacoity; dakoity (robbery by a gang of armed dacoits)
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 medical system from India that has been used for thousands of years.
(Ayurveda, NCI Dictionary)
As to St. John Rivers, he left England: he went to India.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The term also refers to a person from Pakistan, whether or not ancestors were from India.
(Pakistani, NCI Thesaurus)
A person having origins in the original peoples of Asia, but not China, India, Korea, the Philippine Islands or Vietnam.
(Other Asian, NCI Thesaurus)
A NASA-led, international study finds Asia's high mountain glaciers are flowing more slowly in response to widespread ice loss, affecting freshwater availability downstream in India, Pakistan and China.
(NASA Finds Asian Glaciers Slowed by Ice Loss, NASA)
The most affected countries are Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan though arsenic pollution is also present in China, parts of Europe and the Americas.
(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)
Over the Yangtze basin in China, north India and Polynesian islands south of the equator, rainfall is decreasing.
(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)
Beautifully ornamented tusks were documented as far away as the Middle East and India.
(Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement, National Science Foundation)
A microscopy staining method that utilizes India Ink, a water soluble carbon-based black ink, to determine the presence of microorganisms that are surrounded by a gelatinous capsule.
(India Ink Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in Southern Asia, occupying a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean, south-southwest of India.
(Maldives, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
