Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated beneath a continent; of or pertaining to what underlies a continent.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
subcontinent . - adjective geology Located or occurring beneath
continental crust .
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Examples
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Though the entire city of Waukesha is outside the Great Lakes drainage basin, the compact allows the city to apply for use of lake water because it is within a county that straddles the basin boundary, known as a subcontinental divide.
JSOnline.com 2010
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Though the entire city of Waukesha is outside the Great Lakes drainage basin, the compact allows the city to apply for use of lake water because it is within a county that straddles the basin boundary, known as a subcontinental divide.
JSOnline.com 2010
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Sri Lanka have a wonderfully unorthodox bowling attack, which can cope with most conditions, but which should be suited to the Caribbean, where pitches have become ever more "subcontinental".
Hit and giggle game can put the smile back on Caribbean faces 2010
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There are nice images ( "dented tureens of mulligatawny" exactly captures a certain kind of subcontinental dining room) and aggressive descriptions.
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Both have prospered for the A team on their subcontinental travels.
England's Kevin Pietersen backed to open ODI batting against Pakistan 2012
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Bollywood abides, but a new wave of young filmmakers is poised to turn received notions about subcontinental cinema inside out.
Kids Take Over the School Steve Dollar 2010
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What about VJD, the alternative system now being used in the IPL, which has influential supporters in cricket's subcontinental power base?
Being Duckworth-Lewis: cricket's weather-break mathematicians 2011
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He writes about cricket, ecology, subcontinental political thought, and the post-independence history of India his 2007 blockbuster India After Gandhi has already become the standard text on contemporary India.
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Along with the heavy Indian presence among senior ICC dignitaries, there had been the promise of a distinctly subcontinental presence.
England's Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook hit sixes at ICC awards 2011
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My view is rather different, for however thrilling the match was taken in isolation, all I saw were two teams, neither of which possesses the range of requisite skills to challenge the best in subcontinental conditions.
England use of the batting powerplay is short-circuiting their efforts 2011
oroboros commented on the word subcontinental
contains the 5 vowels in reverse order
December 2, 2006