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Definition of Timor

1. Noun. An island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands.

Definition of Timor

1. Proper noun. An island in the Sundas ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Timor

Literary usage of Timor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Selected Poems by William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1916)
"... and potestatis, Baith viche and pur of all degré; Timor Mortis conturbat inc. ... His awfull strak may no man fle; Timor Mortis conturbat rae. ..."

2. Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1894)
"1 UK V<,, CHAPTER X THE Timor GROUP, OR LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS 1. General. FKOM the east end of Java a chain of important islands stretches in a straight line ..."

3. Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, Augustus Henry Keane (1888)
"THE Timor GROUP, OR LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS. 1. Physical Description. FROM the east end of Java a chain of good-sized islands stretches in a straight line for ..."

4. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"Timor Group.—Mammalia.—In the group of islands between Java and Australia, from Lombok to Timor inclusive, we find a set of mammals similar to those of the ..."

5. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1872)
"THE island of Timor is about three hundred miles long and sixty wide, and seems to form the termination of the great range of volcanic islands which begins ..."

6. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1886)
"THE island of Timor is about three hundred miles long and sixty wide, and seems to form the termination of the great range of volcanic islands which begins ..."

7. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1902)
"THE island of Timor is about three hundred milos long and sixty wide, and seems to form the termination of the great range of volcanic islands which begins ..."

8. The Malay Archipelago, the Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1877)
"i THE island of Timor is about three hundred miles long and sixty wide, and seems to form the termination of the great range of volcanic islands which ..."

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