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

Prince Svasti, 70, onetime Siamese Minister of Justice, later Lord Chief Justice, son of the late King Mongkut, brother of the late King Chulalongkorn, father-in-law of ex-King Prajadhipok; in Penang, Straits Settlements.

From Time Magazine Archive

Others plough the Pacific to Australia, India and the Straits Settlements, come back deep-laden with rubber, tin, wool, hemp.

From Time Magazine Archive

British tin hunters in the Straits Settlements are feeling the competition of U. S. producers in Bolivia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Premier Stanley Baldwin had let it be known that the Stevenson Act restricting British rubber production in Malay states, Straits Settlements and Ceylon might become inoperative at some time after May 1.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the case of the Straits Settlements and Malay cadets they may have to learn Chinese or Tamil, as well as the native language.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various