MALAYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Malaya mean? 

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

1. the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALAYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Malaya; Peninsular Malaysia; West Malaysia

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "Malaya"):

Kuala Lumpur (the largest city and former capital of Malaysia until 2005)

Malacca (the third smallest Malaysian state; located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula)

Penang (the second smallest Malaysian state; located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia)

Perlis (the smallest Malaysian state; located at the northern part of the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia)

Negeri Sembilan (one of the 13 states that constitute the Federation of Malaysia; located on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia)

Terengganu (sultanate and one of the 13 states of the Federation of Malaysia)

Selangor; Perak; Pahang; Kelantan; Kedah; Johor; Johore (sultanate and one of the 13 states that constitute the Federation of Malaysia)

Domain member region:

godown ((in India and Malaysia) a warehouse)

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

Federation of Malaysia; Malaysia (a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957)

Malay Peninsula (a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar)

 Context examples 

Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)