EAST INDIES

Pronunciation (US):

• EAST INDIES (noun)
  The noun EAST INDIES has 1 sense:

1. a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia

  Familiarity information: EAST INDIES used as a noun is very rare.

• EAST INDIES (noun)

Meaning:

A group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

East India; East Indies; Malay Archipelago

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "East Indies"):

Sunda Islands (a chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago)

Borneo; Kalimantan (3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago)

Meronyms (members of "East Indies"):

East Indian (a native or inhabitant of the East Indies)

Malay; Malayan (a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago)

Domain member region:

curry ((East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice)

Holonyms ("East Indies" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)