Definition of Indies

1. n. pl. A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.

Definition of Indies

1. Proper noun. The East Indies, including India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and adjacent lands. ¹

2. Proper noun. The West Indies, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and other islands of the Caribbean. ¹

3. Proper noun. (historical) The Western Hemisphere, during the early period of European colonization and exploration. ¹

4. Noun. (plural of indy) ¹

5. Noun. (plural of indie) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Indies

1. indie [n] - See also: indie

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indies

indicted
indictee
indictees
indicter
indicters
indicting
indiction
indictions
indictive
indictment
indictments
indictor
indictors
indicts
indie
indies (current term)
indietronica
indifference
indifference curve
indifference curves
indifferences
indifferencies
indifferency
indifferent
indifferent(p)
indifferent cell
indifferent electrode

Literary usage of Indies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The policy of France, also, is to shape her tariffs in the West indies to shut out the sending of colonial goods to foreign countries and to insure the home ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. p. 1.17, and 4th Rep. pp. x, xiii, 276. See also Cal. State Papers, America and West indies, 1574-1668 passim ; Cal. ..."

3. The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbors by Edmund March Blunt, George William Blunt (1847)
"45 St. Lewis' River and Sound, Labrador 2 St. Lucia, West indies 419 St. ... Tórtola, West indies 392 Tortue, West indies 3(iO Tortuga Island, ..."

4. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1901)
"The French West indies are the best imaginable field for political assimilation ; the conditions which ... Neither contingency applies to the West indies. ..."

5. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"... FROM the latitude of the West indies, until we got inside the Bermudas, where we took the westerly and southwesterly winds, which blow steadily off the ..."

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