BURMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Burma mean? 

• BURMA (noun)
  The noun BURMA has 1 sense:

1. a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal

  Familiarity information: BURMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Burma; Myanmar; Union of Burma

Context example:

much opium is grown in Myanmar

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Burma"):

Rangoon; Yangon (the capital and largest city of Myanmar; located in the south near the Irrawaddy river delta)

Mandalay (a city in central Myanmar to the north of Rangoon)

Mekong; Mekong River (an Asian river; flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea)

Meronyms (members of "Burma"):

Burmese (a native or inhabitant of Myanmar)

Domain member region:

dacoity; dakoity (robbery by a gang of armed dacoits)

Sino-Tibetan; Sino-Tibetan language (the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia)

dacoit; dakoit (a member of an armed gang of robbers)

Myanmar monetary unit (monetary unit in the Union of Burma)

Holonyms ("Burma" is a part of...):

Indochina; Indochinese peninsula (a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam)

Malay Peninsula (a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar)

Holonyms ("Burma" is a member of...):

ASEAN; Association of Southeast Asian Nations (an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism)

 Context examples 

Denotes the inhabitants of Myanmar (formerly Burma), a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Burmese, NCI Thesaurus)