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Indies has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

plural of indy

"The indie bands from the Pacific Northwest played a series of concerts at local venues last month."

Proper Noun
1

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

"The colonial archives contain detailed maps of the trade routes across the indies during the seventeenth century."

Related Terms

Origin

The word comes from the Latin India, which originally referred to the region south of Persia known today as India and Pakistan. It entered English through French and Portuguese traders who used it to describe goods arriving from that distant land.

Rhyming Words
ies ties sies ries mies pies gies dies abies skies shies plies pries okies blies dries aries vries tries cries
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