Lombok

American  

[lom-bok] / lɒmˈbɒk /

noun

1. an island in Indonesia, E of Bali. 1,826 sq. mi. (4,729 sq. km).

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Lombok British  

/ ˈlɒmbɒk /

noun

1. an island of Indonesia, in the Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara) east of Java: came under Dutch rule in 1894; important biologically as being transitional between Asian and Australian in flora and fauna, the line of demarcation beginning at Lombok Strait (a channel between Lombok and Bali, connecting the Flores Sea with the Indian Ocean). Chief town: Mataram. Pop: 2 536 000 (2004 est). Area: 4730 sq km (1826 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

No matter where that search leads, a new era has dawned on Lombok.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

In its quest for a remarkably different future, Lombok will also have to contend with what this means for local culture.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

Same story in Lombok, Indonesia, where cars floated like buoys, and in eastern China, where an inland typhoon-like storm sent furniture blowing down the streets like so many sheafs of paper.

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2025

It was once they had cleared Australian water and entered the Lombok Strait things got really dangerous.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024

The Sultan of Sumbawa had in fact refused to restore two subjects of 203the Kings of Lombok who had fled to Sumbawa.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von