MALAY PENINSULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Malay Peninsula mean? 

• MALAY PENINSULA (noun)
  The noun MALAY PENINSULA has 1 sense:

1. a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar

  Familiarity information: MALAY PENINSULA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALAY PENINSULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Malay Peninsula"):

Burma; Myanmar; Union of Burma (a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal)

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

Kingdom of Thailand; Siam; Thailand (a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula)

Meronyms (members of "Malay Peninsula"):

Malay; Malayan (a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago)

Holonyms ("Malay Peninsula" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)