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Indostan

Indostan is the obsolete 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.

Questions about Indostan

What is Indostan the obsolete form of?
Indostan is the obsolete form of Hindustan.

Words near Indostan in the dictionary

  1. Indos
  2. indosespene
  3. Indosphere
  4. Indospheric
  5. indospicine
  6. Indostan
  7. indostomid
  8. indostomids
  9. indotint
  10. indotints
  11. indotricarbocyanine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Indostan (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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