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PENANG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Penang mean?
• PENANG (noun)
The noun PENANG has 1 sense:
1. the second smallest Malaysian state; located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia
Familiarity information: PENANG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The second smallest Malaysian state; located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Malaysian state (one of the several states constituting Malaysia)
Holonyms ("Penang" is a part of...):
Malaya; Peninsular Malaysia; West Malaysia (the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north)
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