TIMOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Timor mean? 

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

1. an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIMOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "Timor"):

East Timor (a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976; voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999 and in May 2002 became an independent nation)

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

Dutch East Indies; Indonesia; Republic of Indonesia (a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions)

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

Lesser Sunda Islands; Nusa Tenggara (a chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia to the east of Java; includes Bali and Timor)

 Context examples 

In contrast, deforestation in Latin America, insular South-East Asia (which include Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Timor Leste) and Madagascar derived low agricultural benefits and high environmental costs.

(Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions, SciDev.Net)