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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 nation
Familiarity information: EAST TIMOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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