SUNDA ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sunda Islands mean? 

• SUNDA ISLANDS (noun)
  The noun SUNDA ISLANDS has 1 sense:

1. a chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago

  Familiarity information: SUNDA ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUNDA ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Sunda Islands"):

Greater Sunda Islands (a chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java and Sumatra)

Lesser Sunda Islands; Nusa Tenggara (a chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia to the east of Java; includes Bali and Timor)

Holonyms ("Sunda Islands" is a part of...):

East India; East Indies; Malay Archipelago (a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia)