FEDERATION OF MALAYSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Federation of Malaysia mean? 

• FEDERATION OF MALAYSIA (noun)
  The noun FEDERATION OF MALAYSIA 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: FEDERATION OF MALAYSIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEDERATION OF MALAYSIA (noun)

Sense 1

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:

Federation of Malaysia; Malaysia

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Federation of Malaysia"):

capital of Malaysia; Putrajaya (Malaysia's sparkling new capital)

East Malaysia (the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo)

Malaya; Peninsular Malaysia; West Malaysia (the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north)

Malaysian state (one of the several states constituting Malaysia)

Meronyms (members of "Federation of Malaysia"):

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:

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 ("Federation of Malaysia" 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 ("Federation of Malaysia" 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)