Malay States

British  

plural noun

1. the former states of the Malay Peninsula that, together with Penang and Malacca, formed the Union of Malaya (1946) and the Federation of Malaya (1948). Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, and Pahang were established as the Federated Malay States by the British in 1895 and Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan, and Trengannu as the Unfederated Malay States in 1909 (joined by Johore in 1914)

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Example Sentences

The Beachcomber's wanderings take him through Borneo, Siam, French Indo-China, Japan, the Malay States, the Philippines, under freight cars, and among types seldom met at first-hand in the pages of books.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chao Chom Suvadena last year visited the Malay States, Singapore and Penang in the royal entourage.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Federated Malay States, it and two subsidiaries hold properties estimated to contain 72,151,000 Ib. of tin.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Malay States produce about 30% through two tin kingdoms�one, Anglo-Oriental Mining, controlled by a 6-ft.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is not the roughing required in Hankow which is necessary in other parts of the empire, as in British East Africa and in the jungles of the Federated Malay States, for instance.

From Across China on Foot by Dingle, Edwin John