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East Indies

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Noun

1. east india, east indies, malay archipelago

a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

East Indies

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plural noun
the East Indies
1. 
the Malay Archipelago, including or excluding the Philippines
2. old-fashioned
SE Asia in general

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East Indies

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1. 
Malay Archipelago; esp., the islands of Indonesia
2.  Obsolete
India, Indochina, and the Malay Archipelago
: also East India

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

East Indies

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Indonesia. The term is sometimes used to refer to all of Southeast Asia. Historically, it referred chiefly to India.

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