BRUNEI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brunei mean? 

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

1. a sultanate in northwestern Borneo; became independent of Great Britain in 1984

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRUNEI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sultanate in northwestern Borneo; became independent of Great Britain in 1984

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Brunei; Negara Brunei Darussalam

Instance hypernyms:

sultanate (country or territory ruled by a sultan)

Meronyms (members of "Brunei"):

Bruneian (a native or inhabitant of Brunei)

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

Borneo; Kalimantan (3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago)

Holonyms ("Brunei" 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:

Bruneian (of or relating to or characteristic of Brunei or its people)

 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)

Norway, Brunei and Saudi Arabia have all flagged that they wish to be an exporter of hydrogen around the world.

(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)