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Golden Triangle

noun

  1. (sometimes lowercase) an area of Southeast Asia encompassing parts of Myanmar (Burma), Laos, and Thailand, significant as a major source of opium and heroin.
  2. Canadian. the peninsula enclosed by Lakes Ontario, Erie, and Huron.


golden triangle

noun

  1. the Golden Triangle
    an opium-producing area of SE Asia, comprising parts of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand
  2. any more or less triangular area or region noted for its success, prosperity, influence, etc
  3. maths a triangle which has two 72-degree angles and one 36-degree angle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Soon after, he kidnapped 13 Chinese nationals in the Golden Triangle, trading them for $8.3 million.

What this golden triangle means, what it has to do with the case in hand, I can't for the present tell.

I always thought those words, 'the golden triangle,' misleading, because they suggest something mysterious and fabulous.

The golden triangle, that's it: bags of gold arranged in a triangle, a triangular site.

The helicopter turned and went windmilling away, over what had been the Golden Triangle, down the Ohio.

He held in his hand a sort of scepter of gold with a heavy golden triangle at its end.

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