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    Timorese
    adjective
    of or relating to Timor.
  • timorese
    timorese
    adjective
    of or relating to Timor or its inhabitants

Timorese

American  
[tee-maw-reez, -rees] / ˌti mɔˈriz, -ˈris /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Timor.


noun

  • Timorese
    plural
  1. a native or inhabitant of Timor.

timorese British  
/ ˌtiːmɔːˈriːz /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Timor or its inhabitants

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Timor

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of Timorese

Timor + -ese


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Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao said in an emotional speech that joining Asean was "a dream realised" for East Timorese, as clips of the East Timor delegation crying and thanking Asean attendees went viral online.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025

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

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024

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.

From Reuters ● Nov. 12, 2022

Few Timorese wanted to speak, but those who did voiced support for him.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

The people are like the Timorese with frizzly or wavy hair and of a coppery brown colour.

From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Alfred Russel Wallace

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