Federated Malay States

American  

plural noun

1. a former federation of four states in British Malaya: Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, and Selangor.

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Federated Malay States British  

plural noun

1. See Malay States

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Etymology

Origin of Federated Malay States

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Evidently this island was well out of the regular steamer track, while sailing vessels, running between The Cape and India and the Federated Malay States, would pass well to the eastward in order to take full advantage of the monsoons.

From Project Gutenberg

Apart from India, substantial progress has been made in Cape Colony, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States.

From Project Gutenberg

Unfortunately neither the man nor the facilities for such experimental work exist at the present moment in the Federated Malay States.

From Project Gutenberg

When one has knocked about the federated Malay States for donkeys' years, as one has, one learns that "stengah" means a small whisky and water, nothing more, nothing less.

From Time Magazine Archive

By Feb. 25 Japan could have a firm grip on the long Malayan gooseneck that dangles down to the British Federated Malay States and the fortress of Singapore.

From Time Magazine Archive