Subcontinental
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Subcontinental is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to a subcontinent.
Meaning
Of or pertaining to a subcontinent.
More Meanings
- (geology) Located or occurring beneath continental crust.
- Pertaining to the Indian Subcontinent; South Asian.
- A person from the Indian Subcontinent; a South Asian.
Example Sentences
In the menagerie of subcontinental art, the horse and elephant are most common.
When a subcontinental plume hits such a thin spot, the result would be voluminous shallow magmatism.
This does not mean that we value Englishmen at a premium and Africans at a moral discount. Nor does it mean that Canadians are intrinsically more precious to us than subcontinentals.
Conversely, there were many subcontinentals informed about Kashmir. Apart from Kashmiris, and the British knew very few of them, most of these subcontinentals in 1846 either were from Punjab or were involved with the Sikh Empire.
Word Forms
- subcontinentals
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lithosphere, subcolonial, subregional, subprovincial, subcategorical, subgeneric.
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