indus

1. 1.

   a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Tucana

   Broaderconstellation
2. 2.

   an Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea

   “the valley of the Indus was the site of an early civilization”

   SynonymsIndus River

   Broaderriver

   Part ofPakistan

Other forms of indus

plural

induses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about indus

What does indus mean?

indus means "a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Tucana". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indus?

indus has 2 syllables: in-dus. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪndəs/.

What is another word for indus?

Close synonyms include Indus River. 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 indus a common word?

indus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.