Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun Formerly, an Asian country on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, now part of Malaysia.
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- proper noun the
Malay Peninsula
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- noun a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957
Etymologies
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Examples
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The situation in Malaya is better than it was a year ago, and it appears to me from what I can gather in the newspapers that this improvement is continuing.
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Old Man Stressed has several stories from his time with Jonny Gurkha in Malaya
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His family had been living in Malaya since 1938, he had told them, where his father William was working at the Raub Australia goldmine.
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Crane, 83, claimed to have been a boy soldier behind the lines in Malaya in World War II and to have survived the Burma-Thailand
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Sandercock found the smoking gun - Crane's Adelaide High School report card from 1941, the year he was meant to be living in Malaya, abandoned by his parents and forced to enlist.
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On the Japanese side - more than 25,000 were killed or wounded in Malaya, while on Singapore the total reached more than 20,000 men killed and 5,000 wounded or missing.
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A detailed breakdown of Japanese forces in Malaya on December 7, 1941 reveals that
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Crane admitted this week that he had copies of several famous books on prisoners of war in Malaya, including The Jungle is Neutral, by Freddie
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Allied forces in Malaya and Singapore on December 1, 1941 were as follows
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He had told them that since 1938 his family had lived in Malaya, where his father William worked at the Raub Australia goldmine.
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