MALAYA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Malaya mean?
• MALAYA (noun)
The noun MALAYA 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: MALAYA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MALAYA (noun)
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:
Malaya; Malaysia
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Malaya"):
East Malaysia (the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo)
West Malaysia (the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula)
Meronyms (members of "Malaya"):
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:
godown (a warehouse in the East)
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 ("Malaya" 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 ("Malaya" 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)
