NORTH BORNEO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does North Borneo mean? 

• NORTH BORNEO (noun)
  The noun NORTH BORNEO has 1 sense:

1. one of the 13 states that constitute the Federation of Malaysia; located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo

  Familiarity information: NORTH BORNEO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH BORNEO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the 13 states that constitute the Federation of Malaysia; located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

North Borneo; Sabah

Instance hypernyms:

Malaysian state (one of the several states constituting Malaysia)

Meronyms (members of "North Borneo"):

Sabahan (a Malaysian from Sabah)

Holonyms ("North Borneo" is a part of...):

Borneo; Kalimantan (3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago)

East Malaysia (the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo)