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CELEBES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mountainous island in eastern Indonesia
Synonyms:
Celebes; Sulawesi
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Holonyms ("Celebes" is a part of...):
Dutch East Indies; Indonesia; Republic of Indonesia (a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions)