East Indies

English

Alternative forms

East-Indies (archaic)

Etymology 1

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East Indies

From east +‎ Indies, a qualification added to distinguish the original lands and islands of "India" (inclusive of areas from Subsaharan Africa to Indonesia and Japan) from the "West Indies".

Proper noun

East Indies pl (plural only)

Southeast Asia, especially Island Southeast Asia or Indonesia, but also including India, Indochina, Malaya and the Malay Archipelago, from the Philippines to Indonesia.

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Translations

Southeast Asia

Armenian: Օստ Ինդիա (Ōst India)
Catalan: Índies Orientals f pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 東印度／东印度 (Dōngyìndù)
Danish: Ostindien
Dutch: Oost-Indië n
French: Indes orientales (fr) f pl
Galician: Indias Orientais f pl
German: Ostindien (de) n
Irish: Na hIndiacha Thoir m pl
Italian: Indie Orientali f pl
Latin: India Orientalis f
Portuguese: Índias Orientais f pl
Romanian: Indiile Orientale f pl
Russian: Ост-И́ндия (ru) (Ost-Índija)
Spanish: Indias Orientales pl
Swedish: Ostindien

Etymology 2

Noun

East Indies

plural of East Indie

Anagrams

adenitises, desanitise, dessiatine

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