Associations to the word «Malaya»

Wiktionary

MALAYA, proper noun. The Malay Peninsula
MALAYA, proper noun. An independent country in South East Asia from 1957-1963

Dictionary definition

MALAYA, noun. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope