as in continent
a large area of land that is a part of a continent
—used especially to refer to the area that includes India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
the Indian subcontinent
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Recent Examples of subcontinent
His mother, who is from India, is a central figure in his connection to music from the subcontinent.
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Mandeep Rai, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The cut hides are then sent to the subcontinent to be formed into quarters; these quarters then make their way to Jajodia’s Aladdin’s cave of a factory on Shernhall Street in Walthamstow, east London.
—James Wallace, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2025
The jagged border was hastily drawn by a British judge when the Indian subcontinent won its independence from Britain in August 1947 but was divided into a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan.
—Sam Dalrymple, Time, 14 July 2025
There's rumored to be a second one among Greenland's approximately 6,500 cars for an island that's about half the size of the Indian subcontinent and has fewer than 60 miles of road and just three traffic lights.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 6 July 2025
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Mandeep Rai, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The cut hides are then sent to the subcontinent to be formed into quarters; these quarters then make their way to Jajodia’s Aladdin’s cave of a factory on Shernhall Street in Walthamstow, east London.
—James Wallace, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2025
The jagged border was hastily drawn by a British judge when the Indian subcontinent won its independence from Britain in August 1947 but was divided into a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan.
—Sam Dalrymple, Time, 14 July 2025
There's rumored to be a second one among Greenland's approximately 6,500 cars for an island that's about half the size of the Indian subcontinent and has fewer than 60 miles of road and just three traffic lights.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 6 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subcontinent
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This year’s ceremony in Rio de Janeiro brings the Earthshot Prize to South America for the first time — the fifth continent to host the awards in just five years.—
Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Traveled to every continent short of Africa, Antarctica and South America.—
Romina Ruiz-Goiriena,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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Others show newer storefronts adorned with simplified Chinese characters, not traditional ones, as arrivals from mainland China come to significantly outnumber those from Taiwan or Hong Kong, the source of earlier waves of migration to the US.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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Here on the mainland, Super Bowl LX is set for February 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, and will be broadcast on NBC.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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The University of Barcelona studied an amber deposit unearthed from a quarry near Archidona in the Amazonian Napo Province of Ecuador — a part of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Sep. 2025
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Gondwana was a supercontinent that included around two-thirds of today's continental area—including what is now Australia, Antarctica, India, South America, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia and New Zealand.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Subcontinent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcontinent. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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