MALAYSIAN STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Malaysian state mean? 

• MALAYSIAN STATE (noun)
  The noun MALAYSIAN STATE has 1 sense:

1. one of the several states constituting Malaysia

  Familiarity information: MALAYSIAN STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALAYSIAN STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the several states constituting Malaysia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("Malaysian state" is a kind of...):

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Instance hyponyms:

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)

North Borneo; Sabah (one of the 13 states that constitute the Federation of Malaysia; located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo)

Sarawak (the largest state in Malaysia; located on the northwest of the island of Borneo)

Holonyms ("Malaysian state" 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)