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federated malay states

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English

Syllables
fed-er-at-ed -malay s-tates
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A federation of four protected states in the Malay Peninsula — Selangor, Perak, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang — established by the British government in 1895, which lasted until 1946, when they, together with two of the former Straits Settlements (Malacca and Penang) and the Unfederated Malay States, formed the Malayan Union.

Inflected Forms

the Federated Malay States (canonical)

Synonyms

FMS

Questions

What does federated malay states mean?
A federation of four protected states in the Malay Peninsula — Selangor, Perak, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang — established by the British government in 1895, which lasted until 1946, when they, together with two of the former Straits Settlements (Malacca and Penang) and the Unfederated Malay States, formed the Malayan Union.

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