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• Ind
  Ind

  noun

  India.
• IND
  IND

  abbreviation

  investigative new drug.
• ind-
  ind-

  variant of indo- before a vowel.
• ind.
  ind.

  abbreviation

  independence.
• Ind.
  Ind.

  abbreviation

  India.
• I.N.D.
  I.N.D.

  abbreviation

  in the name of God.

Ind

¹ American  

[ind] / ɪnd /

noun

1. Literary. India.

2. Obsolete. the Indies.

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IND ² American  

abbreviation

Pharmacology.

1. investigative new drug.

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ind- ³ American  

1. variant of indo- before a vowel.

   indamine.

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ind. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. independence.

2. independent.

3. index.

4. indicated.

5. indicative.

6. indigo.

7. indirect.

8. industrial.

9. industry.

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Ind. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. India.

2. Indian. Also Ind

3. Indiana.

4. Indies.

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I.N.D. ⁶ American  

abbreviation

1. in the name of God.

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Ind. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Independent

2. India

3. Indian

4. Indiana

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Ind ² British  

/ ɪnd /

noun

1. a poetic name for India

2. an obsolete name for the Indies

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IND ³ British  

abbreviation

1. Also: IDN.  in nomine Dei

2. India (international car registration)

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Etymology

Origin of Ind¹

1175–1225; Middle English Inde < Old French Inde < Latin India India

Origin of I.N.D.⁶

From Latin in nōmine Deī

Example Sentences

That venture raised $5.7 billion in a sale of junk bonds, with proceeds going toward buying land and developing a 430 megawatt data-center complex in New Lebanon, Ind.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

"A second visit to Eps Ind Ab with JWST: new photometry confirms ammonia and suggests thick clouds in the exoplanet atmosphere of the closest super-Jupiter" in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026

She stars as a commercial cleaner in her latest film project, “We Strangers,” an observation on assimilation, code switching and belonging in Gary, Ind.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2024

All those companies except Subaru have plants in states represented by the governors who issued the statement; Subaru’s only U.S. plant is in Lafayette, Ind.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2024

Who was in the gallery and made a heroic but unsuccessful attempt to save her brother, Walter Bissinger, the Boy Poet of Illinois, and her cousin, Jack Pottlitzer, of Lafayette, Ind.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various