Associations to the word «Indus»

Wiktionary

INDUS, proper noun. A large river of south-central Asia, rising in Tibet and flowing through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea.
INDUS, proper noun. (constellation) A constellation of the southern sky between Grus and Pavo. It commemorates American Indians.
INDUS, proper noun. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada
INDUS SCRIPT, proper noun. An as yet undeciphered corpus of symbols found on some artefacts from the Indus Valley Civilization, possibly representing a script of a language.
INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION, proper noun. An ancient civilization from the Indus river valley; also the Harappan civilization
INDUS VALLEY LANGUAGE, proper noun. The ancient language of the Indus Valley, spoken in the timeframe of 2600-1900 BCE.

Dictionary definition

INDUS, noun. A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Tucana.
INDUS, noun. An Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea; "the valley of the Indus was the site of an early civilization".

Wise words

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