Timorese

[tee-maw-reez, -rees]

adjective

1. of or relating to Timor.

noun

plural

Timorese 

1. a native or inhabitant of Timor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Timorese¹

Timor + -ese

Example Sentences

The child has connections to the East Timorese community in Dungannon.

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These weapons were essential to the Indonesian dictator’s consolidation of military control in both East Timor and West Papua, and these occupations cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Timorese and Papuan civilians.

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“I promise to carry out the tasks that the people have entrusted to me and to bring prosperity to the Timorese people through government programs,” Gusmao said at the swearing-in ceremony.

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East Timorese voters headed to the polls on Sunday in a parliamentary election that analysts said would likely see two resistance-era figures battle to be prime minister.

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He spent decades as the exiled spokesperson for East Timorese guerrilla fighters when the country was fighting against the Indonesian occupation, a struggle for which he was awarded the Nobel prize in 1996.

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