FORMOSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Formosa mean? 

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

1. an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORMOSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Formosa; Taiwan

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

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

South China Sea (a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons)

Derivation:

Formosan (of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language)

 Context examples 

“Shall I demonstrate your own ignorance? What do you know, pray, of Tapanuli fever? What do you know of the black Formosa corruption?”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)