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SULAWESI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Sulawesi mean?
• SULAWESI (noun)
The noun SULAWESI has 1 sense:
1. a mountainous island in eastern Indonesia
Familiarity information: SULAWESI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mountainous island in eastern Indonesia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Celebes; Sulawesi
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Holonyms ("Sulawesi" 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)
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