Ind en · PROPN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ɪnd/ (UK, US)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle French Inde, from Latin India.
Meanings
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(archaic, poetic) India; the East.
High on a throne of royal state , which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:From the east to western Ind, / No jewel is like Rosalind.
c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], line 84: