SARAWAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sarawak mean? 

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

1. the largest state in Malaysia; located on the northwest of the island of Borneo

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SARAWAK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest state in Malaysia; located on the northwest of the island of Borneo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Malaysian state (one of the several states constituting Malaysia)

Meronyms (members of "Sarawak"):

Sarawakian (a native or inhabitant of Sarawak)

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

Borneo; Kalimantan (3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago)

East Malaysia (the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo)

Derivation:

Sarawakian (of or relating to Sarawak or its people)