Associations to the word «Burma»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

BURMA, noun. A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal; "much opium is grown in Myanmar".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats