FAR EAST

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Far East" is a part of...):

East; Orient (the countries of Asia)

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