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ˈsubˌcontinent
(Now also with main stress on second syllable.)
[sub- 5 b.]
A land mass of great extent, but smaller than those generally called continents; a large section of a continent having a certain geographical or political independence; spec. applied formerly to South Africa, and more recently to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
1863Huxley Man's Place Nat. iii. 154 From central Asia eastward to the Pacific islands and subcontinents on the one hand, and to America on the other. 1901Scotsman 16 Oct. 11/1 In South Africa..the inhabitants of the sub-continent. 1911United Empire June 389 Rhodesia might have seemed the Never-never-land of the sub-continent, a Cinderella among South African States. 1947J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xiii. 94 The springbuck..is the only representative of the gazelle group, which is found in the sub-continent. 1954B. & R. North tr. M. Duverger's Pol. Parties ii. i. 210 In Latin America, a general tendency towards the two-party system is perceptible, though it is generally..deformed by the revolutions, coups d'état, gerrymandering..characteristic of..that sub-continent. 1971R. Russell in Aziz Ahmad's Shore & Wave 7 The novel in Urdu, as in all the modern languages of the South Asian sub-continent, is of very recent growth. 1972Times of India 28 Nov. 11/4 Mr. Azad outlined his Government's views on the political problems of the sub-continent. 1978L. Heren Growing up on The Times v. 175 Many Indians refused to accept the partition of the sub-continent. |