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Hindoostan

Hindoostan is the archaic form of Hindustan.

Meaning of Hindustan

Proper noun

Hindustan

  1. (colloquial) India (Republic of India).
    Synonyms:
    Bharat
  2. (dated) The entire region of the Indian subcontinent.
    • He did not wish to steal anything. He only desired to know what to steal, and, incidentally, how to get away when he had stolen it. He thanked all the Gods of Hindustan, and Herbert Spencer, that there remained some valuables to steal.1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter XIII, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 341
  3. (obsolete) The northern (properly north central) region of India.

Words formed from Hindoostan

Questions about Hindoostan

What is Hindoostan the archaic form of?
Hindoostan is the archaic form of Hindustan.

Words near Hindoostan in the dictionary

  1. Hindoo-Kho
  2. Hindoo-Koosh
  3. Hindoo-Kush
  4. Hindooism
  5. Hindoos
  6. Hindoostan
  7. Hindoostane
  8. Hindoostanee
  9. Hindoostanees
  10. Hindoostanes
  11. Hindoostani

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hindoostan (page history and authors); Hindustan (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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