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East India Company

East India Company is the alternative form of British East India Company.

Meaning of British East India Company

Proper noun

the British East India Company

  1. (historical) A seventeenth-century British joint-stock company founded to trade with India, and subsequently colonized a large part of the South Asia.

Questions about East India Company

What is East India Company the alternative form of?
East India Company is the alternative form of British East India Company.

Words near East India Company in the dictionary

  1. East Holden
  2. East Horndon
  3. East Horsley
  4. East Huntspill
  5. East Ilsley
  6. East India Company
  7. East Indiaman
  8. East Indiamen
  9. East Indian
  10. East Indian Catholic
  11. East Indian Catholics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: East India Company (page history and authors); British East India Company (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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