Usually means: Freedom from colonial rule achieved.
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  1. malaya: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Malaya: Merriam-Webster
  3. Malaya: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Malaya: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Malaya: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Malaya: Vocabulary.com
  7. Malaya: Wordnik
  8. Malaya: Wiktionary
  9. Malaya: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Malaya: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Malaya: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. malaya: Dictionary.com
  13. Malaya (Moira Dela Torre album), Malaya (disambiguation), Malaya (film), Malaya (newspaper), Malaya: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Malaya: Rhymezone
  15. malaya: FreeDictionary.org
  16. malaya: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Malaya: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Malaya: Encyclopedia

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  1. MALAYA: Acronym Finder

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Malaya)

▸ noun:  The southern part of the Malay Peninsula and several nearby islands, currently forming the western part of the Federation of Malaysia, now known as West Malaysia.
▸ noun:  (historical) The Federation of Malaya, An independent country in Southeast Asia from 1957 to 1963.

Similar:
Malaysia, Federated Malay States, Sarawak, Putrajaya, Southeast Asia, Konfrontasi, Negri Sembilan, Malawi, Indies, Nyasaland, more...

Opposite:
occupied, colonized, dependent

Phrases:
British Malaya, Federation of Malaya, Japanese occupation of Malaya, University of Malaya, Oxana Malaya, more...

Adjectives:
northern, independent, colonial, modern, central, western, war, peninsular, southern, north, indo

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Similar:
Malaysia, Federated Malay States, Sarawak, Putrajaya, Southeast Asia, Konfrontasi, Negri Sembilan, Malawi, Indies, Nyasaland, more...

Opposite:
occupied, colonized, dependent

Phrases:
British Malaya, Federation of Malaya, Japanese occupation of Malaya, University of Malaya, Oxana Malaya, University Malaya Medical Centre, HMS Malaya, Malaya and British Borneo dollar, Ultras Malaya, more...

Adjectives:
northern, independent, colonial, modern, central, western, war, peninsular, southern, north, indo

Colors:
    red,     white,     blue,     yellow,     green, more...



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