Indus

¹

[in-duhs]

noun

1. a river in S Asia, flowing from W Tibet through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. 1,900 miles (3,060 km) long.

Indus

²

[in-duhs]

noun

Astronomy.

genitive

Indi 

1. the Indian, a southern constellation between Grus and Pavo.

indus.

³

abbreviation

1. industrial.

2. industry.

Indus

¹

/ ˈɪndəs /

noun

1. a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Telescopium and Tucano

Indus

²

/ ˈɪndəs /

noun

1. a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet in the Kailas Range of the Himalayas and flowing northwest through Kashmir, then southwest across Pakistan to the Arabian Sea: important throughout history, esp for the Indus Civilization (about 3000 to 1500 _bc ), and for irrigation. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Indus¹

< New Latin, Latin

Example Sentences

That includes the upper Indus river basin, which serves parts of China, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

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Nine people died on Tuesday after a rescue boat carrying flood victims capsized in the Indus River.

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In 2019, scientists reconstructed faces of two skulls found at a cemetery in Rakhigarhi - an important Indus Valley Civilisation site in India.

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The Indus system flows northwest out of Tibet into India, before turning southward into Pakistan.

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"Considering the rudimentary state of travel back then, people from the Indus Valley would not have been able to migrate to the south in such large numbers to set up civilisation," he says.

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