Southeast Asian

British

adjective

of or relating to Southeast Asia or its inhabitants

"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

noun

a native or inhabitant of Southeast Asia

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Example Sentences

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The last major train crash in the Southeast Asian country killed four crew members and injured about two dozen people elsewhere in the West Java province in January 2024.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

Americans alone lost $10 billion to online fraud originating from Southeast Asian nations in 2024, according to U.S. government data.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

In September, the EU announced a trade deal with Indonesia that required the Southeast Asian nation to protect over 200 food products.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

"The Americans are highly awaited; without them, we can't move forward," confided one delegate from a Southeast Asian country, speaking on condition of anonymity.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Only on the remote Andaman Islands do languages unrelated to the South Chinese language families persist—the last linguistic survivors of what must have been hundreds of now extinct aboriginal Southeast Asian languages.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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