east indies

Questions about east indies

What does east indies mean?

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

What is another word for east indies?

Close synonyms include Malay Archipelago, East India. 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 indies a common word?

east indies 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.