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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Myanmar mean? 

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

1. a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYANMAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Burma; Myanmar; Union of Burma

Context example:

much opium is grown in Myanmar

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Myanmar"):

Rangoon; Yangon (the capital and largest city of Myanmar; located in the south near the Irrawaddy river delta)

Mandalay (a city in central Myanmar to the north of Rangoon)

Mekong; Mekong River (an Asian river; flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea)

Meronyms (members of "Myanmar"):

Burmese (a native or inhabitant of Myanmar)

Domain member region:

dacoity; dakoity (robbery by a gang of armed dacoits)

Sino-Tibetan; Sino-Tibetan language (the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia)

dacoit; dakoit (a member of an armed gang of robbers)

Myanmar monetary unit (monetary unit in the Union of Burma)

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

Indochina; Indochinese peninsula (a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam)

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

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

ASEAN; Association of Southeast Asian Nations (an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism)

 Context examples 

The specimen represents a previously undiscovered species, which the scientists named Xiaophis myanmarensis, or "dawn-snake of Myanmar."

(Cretaceous baby snake fossil found in Myanmar, Wikinews)

Denotes the inhabitants of Myanmar (formerly Burma), a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Burmese, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers have discovered a perfectly preserved dinosaur tail in a piece of amber in Myanmar.

(Dinosaur Tail Found in Myanmar, VOA News)

That includes roughly 600 million people in Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Laos and several other nations, mainly in Southeast Asia, the report said.

(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)

Lead researcher Lida Xing of the China University of Geosciences found the amber, originally from amber mines in Myanmar's Hukawng Valley, in a Myanmar market, where it had been mistaken for a preserved plant.

(Scientists find dinosaur feathers preserved in amber, Wikinews)

The extended Himalayas, also known as the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) area, includes several of the world’s highest mountains that are strung out over 3,600 kilometres across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)

A team of researchers from China, Canada, the United States, and Australia published on Wednesday their discovery of an early fossilized baby snake, reportedly the oldest ever found, in a piece of amber in the middle of a sandstone deposit in Myanmar.

(Cretaceous baby snake fossil found in Myanmar, Wikinews)