Usually means: Large, distinct part of continent.
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  1. subcontinent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. subcontinent: Merriam-Webster
  3. subcontinent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. subcontinent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. subcontinent: Collins English Dictionary
  6. subcontinent: Vocabulary.com
  7. Subcontinent, subcontinent: Wordnik
  8. subcontinent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Subcontinent, subcontinent: Wiktionary
  10. subcontinent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. subcontinent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. subcontinent: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. subcontinent: Dictionary.com
  14. Subcontinent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. subcontinent: Rhymezone
  16. subcontinent: FreeDictionary.org
  17. subcontinent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. subcontinent: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. subcontinent: Encyclopedia

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noun:  A large landmass which is either smaller than a continent (such as Greenland), or part of an even larger continent (such as the Indian subcontinent).
noun:  The Indian subcontinent, South Asia.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of subcontinent (“the Indian subcontinent”) [A large landmass which is either smaller than a continent (such as Greenland), or part of an even larger continent (such as the Indian subcontinent).]

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