name
Meaning 1
The Indian subcontinent, South Asia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
subcontinent
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌsʌbˈkɒntɪnənt/
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name
Meaning 2
Alternative letter-case form of subcontinent (“the Indian subcontinent”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
Meaning 3
A large landmass which is either smaller than a continent (such as Greenland), or part of an even larger continent (such as the Indian subcontinent).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: landmass, land mass
History
Etymology
Ellipsis of Indian subcontinent.
From sub- + continent.
Across languages
Translations
61 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: nënkontinent — large landmass
- Arabic: شِبْه قارَة (šibh qāra) — large landmass
- Armenian: ենթացամաք (entʻacʻamakʻ) — large landmass
- Azerbaijani: yarımqitə — large landmass
- Belarusian: субкантыне́нт (subkantynjént) — large landmass
- Belarusian: субкантынэ́нт (subkantynént) — large landmass
- Bengali: উপমহাদেশ (upomhadeś) — large landmass
- Breton: iskevandir — large landmass
- Bulgarian: субконтине́нт (subkontinént) — large landmass
- Catalan: subcontinent — large landmass
- Chinese Mandarin: 次大陸 /次大陆 (cìdàlù) — large landmass
- Cornish: isbrastir — large landmass
- Czech: subkontinent — large landmass
- Danish: subkontinent — large landmass
- Dutch: subcontinent — large landmass
- Estonian: subkontinent — large landmass
- Estonian: alakontinent — large landmass
- Finnish: osamanner — large landmass
- French: sous-continent — large landmass
- Georgian: სუბკონტინენტი (subḳonṭinenṭi) — large landmass
- German: Subkontinent — large landmass
- Greek: υποήπειρος (ypoḯpeiros) — large landmass
- Hindi: उपमहाद्वीप (upmahādvīp) — large landmass
- Hungarian: szubkontinens — large landmass
- Icelandic: álfuhluti — large landmass
- Indonesian: anak benua — large landmass
- Irish: fo-ilchríoch — large landmass
- Italian: subcontinente — large landmass
- Japanese: 亜大陸 (atairiku) — large landmass
- Kazakh: субконтинент (subkontinent) — large landmass
- Khmer: ឧបទ្វីប (ʼupattviip) — large landmass
- Korean: 아대륙 (adaeryuk) — large landmass
- Kyrgyz: субконтинент (subkontinent) — large landmass
- Lao: ອະນຸທະວີບ (ʼa nu tha wīp) — large landmass
- Latvian: subkontinents — large landmass
- Lithuanian: subkontinentas — large landmass
- Macedonian: потконтине́нт (potkontinént) — large landmass
- Malay: subbenua — large landmass
- Norwegian Bokmål: subkontinent — large landmass
- Norwegian Nynorsk: subkontinent — large landmass
- Persian: شبهقاره (šebh-e-qârre) — large landmass
- Polish: subkontynent — large landmass
- Portuguese: subcontinente — large landmass
- Punjabi: ਉਪਮਹਾਂਦੀਪ (upamhāndīp) — large landmass
- Romanian: subcontinent — large landmass
- Russian: субконтине́нт (subkontinént) — large landmass
- Serbo-Croatian: потконтѝнент — large landmass
- Serbo-Croatian: potkontìnent — large landmass
- Slovak: subkontinent — large landmass
- Slovene: podcelina — large landmass
- Spanish: subcontinente — large landmass
- Swedish: subkontinent — large landmass
- Tamil: துணைக்கண்டம் (tuṇaikkaṇṭam) — large landmass
- Telugu: ఉపఖండం (upakhaṇḍaṁ) — large landmass
- Thai: อนุทวีป (à-nú-tá-wîip) — large landmass
- Turkish: altkıta — large landmass
- Ukrainian: субконтине́нт (subkontynént) — large landmass
- Urdu: بَرِّصَغِیر (barr-e-saġīr) — large landmass
- Uzbek: subkontinent — large landmass
- Vietnamese: tiểu lục địa — large landmass
- Welsh: isgyfandir — large landmass
Real reading context