Word.ws English Dictionary

Hindoostane

Hindoostane is the obsolete form of Hindustani.

Meaning of Hindustani

Adjective

Hindustani (comparative more Hindustani, superlative most Hindustani)

  1. (dated outside of South Asia) Related to India, varying historically from the entire Indian subcontinent to India north of the Deccan, especially the plains of the Ganges and Jumna.
  2. (dated) Any thing related to Mughal Empire.
  3. of or pertaining to Hindustani music.

See all 8 meanings of Hindustani

Forms of Hindoostane

Adjective
comparativemore Hindoostane
superlativemost Hindoostane
Noun
pluralHindoostanes

Questions about Hindoostane

What is Hindoostane the obsolete form of?
Hindoostane is the obsolete form of Hindustani.

Words near Hindoostane in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Hindoostane (page history and authors); Hindustani (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Hindoostane.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hindoostane. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.