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East-Indies

East-Indies is the archaic spelling of East Indies.

Meaning of East Indies

Proper noun

East Indies pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Southeast Asia, especially Island Southeast Asia or Indonesia, but also including India, Indochina, Malaya and the Malay Archipelago, from the Philippines to Indonesia.

Questions about East-Indies

What is East-Indies the archaic spelling of?
East-Indies is the archaic spelling of East Indies.

Words near East-Indies in the dictionary

  1. East Zorra-Tavistock
  2. East-Central Europe
  3. East-Ender
  4. East-Enders
  5. East-Flanders
  6. East-Indies
  7. east-north-east
  8. east-northeast
  9. east-northeasterlies
  10. east-northeasterly
  11. east-northeastern

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Adapted from Wiktionary: East-Indies (page history and authors); East Indies (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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