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Definition of Burma

1. Noun. A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal. "Much opium is grown in Myanmar"

Definition of Burma

1. Proper noun. Myanmar; a country in Southeast Asia, on the west coast of the Indochina Peninsula. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burma

Literary usage of Burma

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

1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"burma; a Handbook of Practical Information. By Sir J. George Scott, ... Upper burma under British Rule. By H. Thirkell White, CIE ' Journal of the Society ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1907)
"burma; a Handbook of Practical Information. By Sir J. George Scott, ... Upper burma under British Rule. By H. Thirkell White, CIE ' Journal of the Society ..."

3. The Burmese Connection: Illegal Drugs and the Making of the Golden Triangle by Ronald D. Renard (1996)
"The British are routinely taken to task for having popularized opium as a vice to burma. Actually, however, the British not only popularized it, ..."

4. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1900)
"Before the introduction of Christianity into burma, the Karens were bitterly per- >ecuted by the burmans. And when the Karens accepted Christianity, ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"To the south the hills run down past Manipur into the Lushai country, separating burma from Chittagong. To the north-east they run up to the ..."

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