Sekirov Dictionary

subcontinental

adjective 3
noun 1
forms 3

adjective3

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Of or pertaining to a subcontinent.
- In the menagerie of subcontinental art, the horse and elephant are most common. — 1997
Pertaining to the Indian Subcontinent; South Asian.
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Located or occurring beneath continental crust.
- When a subcontinental plume hits such a thin spot, the result would be voluminous shallow magmatism. — 1995

noun1

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A person from the Indian Subcontinent; a South Asian.
- This does not mean that we value Englishmen at a premium and Africans at a moral discount. Nor does it mean that Canadians are intrinsically more precious to us than subcontinentals. — 1965

forms

subcontinentals · more subcontinental · most subcontinental

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