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MALAY PENINSULA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Malay Peninsula"):
Burma; Myanmar; Union of Burma (a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal)
Malaya; Peninsular Malaysia; West Malaysia (the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north)
Kingdom of Thailand; Siam; Thailand (a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula)
Meronyms (members of "Malay Peninsula"):
Malay; Malayan (a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago)
Holonyms ("Malay Peninsula" is a part of...):
Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)
