SUMATRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sumatra mean? 

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

1. a mountainous island in western Indonesia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUMATRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountainous island in western Indonesia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "Sumatra"):

Medan (a city in Indonesia; located in northeastern Sumatra)

Meronyms (members of "Sumatra"):

Sumatran (a native or inhabitant of Sumatra)

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

Dutch East Indies; Indonesia; Republic of Indonesia (a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions)

 Context examples 

Mr. Culverton Smith is a well-known resident of Sumatra, now visiting London.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The whole question of the Netherland-Sumatra Company and of the colossal schemes of Baron Maupertuis are too recent in the minds of the public, and are too intimately concerned with politics and finance to be fitting subjects for this series of sketches.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is a coolie disease from Sumatra—a thing that the Dutch know more about than we, though they have made little of it up to date.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)