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subcontinental

subcontinental adjective: of or pertaining to a subcontinent.

Adjective (1)

subcontinental (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a subcontinent.
    • In the menagerie of subcontinental art, the horse and elephant are most common.1997, Henry Glassie, Art and Life in Bangladesh, Indiana University Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 283
  2. Located or occurring beneath continental crust.
    • When a subcontinental plume hits such a thin spot, the result would be voluminous shallow magmatism.1995, Brian F. Windley, The Evolving Continents, Wiley, published 1995, →ISBN, page 51

Adjective (2)

subcontinental (comparative more subcontinental, superlative most subcontinental)

  1. Pertaining to the Indian Subcontinent; South Asian.

Noun

subcontinental (plural subcontinentals)

  1. A person from the Indian Subcontinent; a South Asian.
    • This does not mean that we value Englishmen at a premium and Africans at a moral discount. Nor does it mean that Canadians are intrinsically more precious to us than subcontinentals.1965, Charles Burton Marshall, The Exercise of Sovereignty: Papers on Foreign Policy, Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins Press, →LCCN, page 223
    • If the subcontinentals do go home, it would behove them—and the Emiratis—to ask this question: On balance, did the presence of subcontinentals in Dubai and the UAE do more good than bad? / There can be only one answer to that question: The goodwill and hard work of the subcontinentals forever...2011, Pranay Gupte, Dubai: The Making of a Megapolis, Viking, published 2016, →ISBN

subcontinental meaning in Tamil and Urdu

subcontinental in Tamil

துணைக்கண்டப் பண்புடைய, கண்டத்தின் தனிப்பண்புடைய பகுதி, தனிப்பண்புடைய பெரும்பரப்பு, சிறுகண்டம்

subcontinental in Urdu

برصغیری

Forms of subcontinental

Adjective
comparativemore subcontinental
superlativemost subcontinental
Noun
pluralsubcontinentals

Origin of subcontinental

From sub- + continental.

From subcontinent + -al.

Questions about subcontinental

What does subcontinental mean?
Subcontinental means of or pertaining to a subcontinent.
What is subcontinental in Tamil?
Subcontinental in Tamil is துணைக்கண்டப் பண்புடைய, கண்டத்தின் தனிப்பண்புடைய பகுதி, தனிப்பண்புடைய பெரும்பரப்பு. See Subcontinental meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is subcontinental?
Subcontinental can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near subcontinental in the dictionary

  1. subcontext
  2. subcontexts
  3. subcontextual
  4. subcontiguous
  5. subcontinent
  6. subcontinental
  7. subcontinentals
  8. subcontinents
  9. subcontinua
  10. subcontinuous
  11. subcontinuum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subcontinental (page history and authors); subcontinental (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subcontinental (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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