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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of the western Pacific Ocean in the Malay Archipelago between the Sulu and Java Seas southwest of the Philippines. It is the third-largest island in the world. The sultanate of Brunei is on the northwest coast; the rest of the island is divided between Indonesia and Malaysia.
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- proper noun A Pacific island shared by
Indonesia ,Malaysia andBrunei .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago
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Examples
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_Sultan Muda_ (muda = young, the usual Malay title for the heir apparent to the Crown), and the document recognising the appointment of Mr. BROOKE as the Queen's Confidential Agent in Borneo was written in the name of the Sultan and of MUDA HASSIM conjointly, and concludes by saying that the two writers express the hope that through the Queen's assistance they will be enabled to _settle the Government of Borneo_.
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884
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Stefan Berg is a Online Entrepreneur from Sweden, now living in Borneo, Malaysia.
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Who exactly is being fooled by these obvious fake photos of a giant snake in Borneo?
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Who exactly is being fooled by these obvious fake photos of a giant snake in Borneo?
Yes, They're Fake 2009
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The debating point I should also have made, is can you imagine an economist expecting as a basic part of their research to have to go and live with various groups in Borneo (or elsewhere) and write about their culture, their understanding of life and how that might differ from the world from which the researcher came?
Cheeseburger Gothic » Yes I get ffkn grmpy whn I’m on fkn deadline. 2009
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Mr Dobison had a GSM with the Aden clasp but those recognising his work in Borneo and Northern Ireland had been lost.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Combat duty in Borneo with the Australian & Pommy SAS.
JAMES P Tarazon 2010
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She did most of her ethnographic work in Borneo and these days specialises in the cultural construction of identity, including gender.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Yes I get ffkn grmpy whn I’m on fkn deadline. 2009
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From orangutans in Borneo to butterflies in Malaysia to cheetahs in South Africa, Sanctuary gives us a stunning glimpse of nature across the globe.
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A stick insect, collected in Borneo and held in private hands until recently given to the Natural History Museum in London, has been described and determined to be the longest species yet.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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