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Definition of Sumatra
1. Noun. A mountainous island in western Indonesia.
Terms within: Medan
Generic synonyms: Island
Member holonyms: Sumatran
Definition of Sumatra
1. Proper noun. The largest island of Indonesia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sumatra
1. a short violent squall [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sumatra
Literary usage of Sumatra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The lakes of Sumatra are mostly mountain lakes, and not a few of them occupy the
... Sumatra is almost bisected by the equator, and in consequence the ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"In the very straight or narrow betweene Sumatra and Java side, ... The course
from the Head-land of Sumatra, where the three East and West Islands ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"In the very straight or narrow betweene Sumatra and Java side, ... The course
from the Head-land of Sumatra, where the three East and West Islands are, ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"2° K, extending about 25 m. each way, and separated from Sumatra by a narrow strait,
... The large rivers of Sumatra flow down the eastern watershed, ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"Tite Dutch Expedition to Central Sumatra* By Professor PJ VETH, Honorary Corresponding
... In both, the * A map of Sumatra, in illustration of this paper, ..."
6. Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical and Topographical by James Emerson Tennent (1859)
"1 GIBBON states, that " Salmasius and most of the ancients confound the islands
of Ceylon and Sumatra." —Bed. and Fall, ch. x). This is a mistake. ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1826)
"V. — Mission to the East Coast of Sumatra in 1823, under the Direction of the
Government of Prince of Wales's Is/and. By John Anderson, Esq. &c. ..."
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