east india

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsMalay ArchipelagoEast Indies

   Broaderarchipelago

   Part ofPacific

   PartsSunda IslandsBorneo

Questions about east india

What does east india mean?

east india means "a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia".

What is another word for east india?

Close synonyms include Malay Archipelago, East Indies. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is east india a common word?

east india is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.