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Federated Malay States
plural noun
- a former federation of four states in British Malaya: Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, and Selangor.
Federated Malay States
plural noun
- See Malay States
Word History and Origins
Origin of Federated Malay States1
Example Sentences
Evidently this island was well out of the regular steamer track, while sailing vessels, running between The Cape and India and the Federated Malay States, would pass well to the eastward in order to take full advantage of the monsoons.
Apart from India, substantial progress has been made in Cape Colony, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States.
Unfortunately neither the man nor the facilities for such experimental work exist at the present moment in the Federated Malay States.
When one has knocked about the federated Malay States for donkeys' years, as one has, one learns that "stengah" means a small whisky and water, nothing more, nothing less.
By Feb. 25 Japan could have a firm grip on the long Malayan gooseneck that dangles down to the British Federated Malay States and the fortress of Singapore.
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