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subcontinentals

subcontinentals is the plural of subcontinental.

Meaning of subcontinental

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

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Questions about subcontinentals

What is subcontinentals the plural of?
Subcontinentals is the plural of subcontinental.

Words near subcontinentals in the dictionary

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

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