INDONESIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indonesian mean? 

• INDONESIAN (noun)
  The noun INDONESIAN has 2 senses:

1. a native or inhabitant of Indonesia

2. the dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia

  Familiarity information: INDONESIAN used as a noun is rare.

• INDONESIAN (adjective)
  The adjective INDONESIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Indonesia or its people or languages

  Familiarity information: INDONESIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDONESIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Indonesia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Indonesian" is a kind of...):

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Indonesian"):

Sumatran (a native or inhabitant of Sumatra)

Papuan (a native or inhabitant of Papua New Guinea or New Guinea)

Javan; Javanese (a native or inhabitant of Java)

Holonyms ("Indonesian" is a member of...):

Dutch East Indies; Indonesia; Republic of Indonesia (a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Bahasa; Bahasa Indonesia; Indonesian

Hypernyms ("Indonesian" is a kind of...):

Malay (a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Indonesian"):

Javanese (the Indonesian language spoken on Java)

Sundanese (the Indonesian language spoken on West Java)

Balinese (the Indonesian language of the people of Bali)

• INDONESIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Indonesia or its people or languages

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Indonesia (a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions)

Derivation:

Indonesia (a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions)

 Context examples 

An Indonesian cigarette made of tobacco and cloves.

(Kretek, NCI Thesaurus)

In the deadly 2018 earthquake in the Indonesian city of Palu, intense shaking changed solid ground into a landslide of flowing mud, multiplying the death toll and economic impact.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

A wild-type zebrafish line, the stock of which was obtained from an Indonesian fish dealer.

(Indonesia Zebrafish, NCI Thesaurus)

An extract of the flesh from the fruit of Phaleria macrocarpa, an Indonesian herbal medicine, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Phaleria macrocarpa Extract DLBS-1425, NCI Thesaurus)

Dukono is 1 of 78 of historically active volcanoes in the Indonesian archipelago.

(Plume from Dukono Volcano, Indonesia, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)