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Definition: Moluccas |
MoluccasNoun1. A group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Moluccas" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Synonym: MoluccasSynonym: Spice Islands (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: South Moluccas (public administration). |
Crosswords: Moluccas |
| English words defined with "Moluccas": Agathis alba, Agathis dammara, amboina pine, amboyna pine ♦ Dammar pine. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Moluccas": Ailantus. (references) |
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Economic History | Indonesia | In addition to continuing economic malaise, his government has faced regional, interethnic, and interreligious conflict, particularly in Aceh, the Moluccas, and Irian Jaya. (references) |
Human Rights | Indonesia | Fighting in the Moluccan island group, which began in Ambon in January 1999, spread to most major islands in the Moluccas in 2000 and during the year. (references) |
Indigenous People | Indonesia | In some areas, such as in certain parts of Sulawesi, the Moluccas, Kalimantan, Aceh, and Papua, relations between transmigrants and indigenous people are hostile. (references) |
Minorities | Indonesia | Similarly, in the Moluccas and Central Sulawesi, economic tensions between native Christians and Muslims who migrated to these areas in recent decades were a significant factor in incidents of interreligious violence. (references) |
Indonesia | The Laskar Jihad ("holy war troops," a Muslim group that was formed in 2000) engaged in paramilitary training, and leaders of the group announced that they intended to wage war on Christians in the Moluccas and other parts of the country. (references) | |
Political Economy | Indonesia | Notwithstanding these changes, the military continues to play a substantial internal security role in areas of conflict, such as Aceh, the Moluccas, and Papua (formerly known as Irian Jaya). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Moluccas" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.30% of the time. "Moluccas" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 91.3% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (plural) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
moluccas | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Moluccas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | Molukken. (various references) | ||||||||||
Esperanto | Molukoj. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | Moluques. (various references) | ||||||||||
Malay | Maluku. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oluccasmay Молуккские острова (Molucca Islands). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-l-m-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: mucosal. | |
-2 letters: locums, mucosa, oscula. | |
-3 letters: alums, calms, calos, cauls, clams, coals, cocas, colas, comal, comas, culms, loams, locum, locus, mauls, molas, musca, solum, sumac. | |
-4 letters: alms, also, alum, amus, calm, calo, cams, caul, clam, coal, coca, cola, cols, coma, culm, lacs, lams, loam, loca, lums, macs, maul, moas, mocs, mola, mols, ocas, saul. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-l-m-o-s-u" | |
+3 letters: cockalorums. | |
+4 letters: accumulators, macronucleus, malocclusion, microcapsule. | |
+5 letters: accumulations, chemosurgical, conceptualism, counterclaims, malocclusions, microcapsules, microsurgical, microvascular, molluscicidal, musicological, nucleoplasmic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 6C 75 63 63 61 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .-.. ..- -.-. -.-. .- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101100 01110101 01100011 01100011 01100001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o l u c c a s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 006C 0075 0063 0063 0061 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4781788769696785 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | néerlandais, Belanda, голландский |
Esperanto | vortaro, difino, traduko | esperanton, espéranto, эсперанто |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, Perancis, французский |
Malay | malais, малайский, малаец | |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglan, anglais, Inggris, английский |
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