Straits Settlements

American  

noun

(used with a singular or plural verb)

1. a former British crown colony in SE Asia: included the settlements of Singapore, Penang, Malacca, and Labuan.

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Straits Settlements British  

/ streɪts /

plural noun

1. (formerly) a British crown colony of SE Asia that included Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Labuan, and some smaller islands

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Example Sentences

He focuses on stamps from the Straits Settlements, or former colonies across South East Asia, and has spent about £1.4m on the collection.

From BBC

He came from a totally different region, the Straits Settlements.

From Project Gutenberg

The regular services maintained by it, independently of its lines between all the principal ports in Japan, are with China, Asiatic Russia, the Straits Settlements, India, the Red and Mediterranean Seas, Europe, Canada, America, and Australia.

From Project Gutenberg

Malacca, once the Malay capital, has at present altogether lost its former importance, and of the three English colonies in the Straits of Malacca, usually known as the Straits Settlements, is the least important in either a political or a commercial sense.

From Project Gutenberg

Singapore in conjunction with the colony of Malacca, which gives its name to the entire peninsula, and the island of Penang, including the district of Wellesley, form that range of British settlements in the Straits of Malacca which is usually known to the English as "The Straits Settlements."

From Project Gutenberg