India
['ɪndɪə]
Definition
(noun.) a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947.
Typist: Wanda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan.
Typist: Portia
Examples
- The condition of India at this time was one very interesting and attractive to European adventurers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was the India into which the French and English were thrusting during the eighteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It reached out far beyond the utmost limits of the empire, into Armenia, Persia, Abyssinia, Ireland, Germany, India, and Turkestan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What had happened to India was very parallel to what had happened to Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- India is still the empire of the Great Mogul, but the Great Mogul has been replaced by the crowned republic of Great Britain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He wants me to be an India merchant, as he was, and I'd rather be shot. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Do you put cayenne into your cream-tarts in India, sir? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I am not under the slightest obligation to go to India, especially with strangers. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is even related that in the third century B.C. Buddhist missionaries came from the court of King Asoka in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In vain I endeavored to interest him in Afghanistan, in India, in social questions, in anything which might take his mind out of the groove. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I address these lines--written in India--to my relatives in England. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But Akbar made a new India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Brahminism had long since ousted Buddhism from India, but the converts to Islam were still but a small ruling minority in the land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The joint family system, he said, has descended to us from time immemorial, the Aryan patriarchal system of old still holding sway in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet though Akbar made no general educational scheme for India, he set up a number of Moslem and Hindu schools. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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