MALAYSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Malaysia mean? 

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

1. a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALAYSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Federation of Malaysia; Malaysia

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Malaysia"):

capital of Malaysia; Putrajaya (Malaysia's sparkling new capital)

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

Malaya; Peninsular Malaysia; West Malaysia (the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north)

Malaysian state (one of the several states constituting Malaysia)

Meronyms (members of "Malaysia"):

Malay; Malayan (a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago)

Malaysian (a native or inhabitant of Malaysia)

Domain member region:

al-Ma'unah (a radical insurgent Islamist group consisting of disaffected middle-class professionals in Malaysia who want to overthrow the government by violent means and set up an Islamic state)

Islamic Community; Islamic Group; Jemaah Islamiyah; JI; Malaysia Militant Group; Malaysian Mujahidin Group (a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia)

Holonyms ("Malaysia" 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)

Holonyms ("Malaysia" 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)

Derivation:

Malayan (of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the northern Malay Peninsula and parts of the western Malay Archipelago)

Malayan; Malaysian (of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia)

 Context examples 

A country in southeastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and surrounded by Malaysia.

(Brunei Darussalam, NCI Thesaurus)

First identified in Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia in the early 1990s, TR4 has since spread to Africa and now threatens the vast banana plantations of Latin America.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)

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)

Countries and regions most impacted by changes in MJO behaviour are the Maritime Continent region, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, parts of Malaysia, northern Australia, West Pacific, Amazon basin and southwest Africa, where rainfall is increasing, the study says.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

(Asian, NCI Thesaurus)