Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region of Asia bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. It includes Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, the Malay Archipelago, and sometimes the Philippines.
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- proper noun A subregion of
Asia , comprising the territories ofBrunei ,Cambodia ,East Timor ,Indonesia ,Laos ,Malaysia ,Myanmar (Burma ), thePhilippines ,Singapore ,Thailand andVietnam .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore
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Examples
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Williams: We operate in China and what we call Southeast Asia, which includes Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia-and we've opened in Vietnam and India this year.
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Williams: We operate in China and what we call Southeast Asia, which includes Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia-and we've opened in Vietnam and India this year.
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Williams: We operate in China and what we call Southeast Asia, which includes Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia-and we've opened in Vietnam and India this year.
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Mr. Kashgari spoke to The Daily Beast website on Wednesday, the site reported, hours after his arrival in what the news site described as Southeast Asia.
Saudi Tweeter Is Detained in Malaysia Ellen Knickmeyer 2012
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Administration officials often referred to Southeast Asia as the next major franchise location for al-Qaeda, with the Philippines in particular slated to become the "next Afghanistan."
John Feffer: In Search of Terrorist Enemies in Africa John Feffer 2011
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Administration officials often referred to Southeast Asia as the next major franchise location for al-Qaeda, with the Philippines in particular slated to become the "next Afghanistan."
John Feffer: In Search of Terrorist Enemies in Africa John Feffer 2011
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Administration officials often referred to Southeast Asia as the next major franchise location for al-Qaeda, with the Philippines in particular slated to become the "next Afghanistan."
John Feffer: In Search of Terrorist Enemies in Africa John Feffer 2011
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BLITZER: Because in Southeast Asia, which is India, Afghanistan and Pakistan, since 9/11, the U.S. has been pretty active there, you've got to admit.
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Why we're worried now is that the virus situation in Southeast Asia, which is still confined largely to birds with occasional human cases, is getting closer and closer to a virus that would be readily transmitted between humans and that's what will start the pandemic.
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Malaysia if you think back to the days of Viet Nam where we recall Southeast Asia with Viet Nam on the corner and dripping down from Southeast Asia is long (?)
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