EAST INDIA COMPANY as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia
    • in the 18th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal and held it until the British army took over in 1858 after the Indian Mutiny
    Hypernyms(s) East India Company is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower