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EAST TIMOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does East Timor mean? 

EAST TIMOR (noun)
  The noun EAST TIMOR has 1 sense:

1. a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976; voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999 and in May 2002 became an independent nationplay

  Familiarity information: EAST TIMOR used as a noun is very rare.


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EAST TIMOR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976; voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999 and in May 2002 became an independent nation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Holonyms ("East Timor" is a part of...):

Southeast Asia (a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore)

Timor (an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands)


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