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SUMATRA
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I. (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)
