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FAR EAST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)
Holonyms ("Far East" is a part of...):
East; Orient (the countries of Asia)