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FEDERATION OF MALAYSIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957
Synonyms:
Federation of Malaysia; Malaysia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Federation of Malaysia"):
capital of Malaysia; Putrajaya (Malaysia's sparkling new capital)
East Malaysia (the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo)
Malaya; Peninsular Malaysia; West Malaysia (the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north)
Malaysian state (one of the several states constituting Malaysia)
Meronyms (members of "Federation of Malaysia"):
Malay; Malayan (a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago)
Malaysian (a native or inhabitant of Malaysia)
Domain member region:
al-Ma'unah (a radical insurgent Islamist group consisting of disaffected middle-class professionals in Malaysia who want to overthrow the government by violent means and set up an Islamic state)
Islamic Community; Islamic Group; Jemaah Islamiyah; JI; Malaysia Militant Group; Malaysian Mujahidin Group (a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia)
Holonyms ("Federation of Malaysia" 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)
Holonyms ("Federation of Malaysia" 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)
