EAST PAKISTAN
Dictionary entry overview: What does East Pakistan mean?
• EAST PAKISTAN (noun)
The noun EAST PAKISTAN has 1 sense:
1. a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971
Familiarity information: EAST PAKISTAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EAST PAKISTAN (noun)
Meaning:
A Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Bangla Desh; Bangladesh; East Pakistan; People's Republic of Bangladesh
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "East Pakistan"):
capital of Bangladesh; Dacca; Dhaka (the capital and largest city of Bangladesh)
Chittagong (a port city and industrial center in southeastern Bangladesh on the Bay of Bengal)
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)
Meronyms (members of "East Pakistan"):
Bangladeshi (a native or inhabitant of Bangladesh)
Bengali ((Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus))
Domain member region:
madrasa; madrasah (Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan)
Holonyms ("East Pakistan" 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)
