asean

1. 1.

   an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism

   SynonymsAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations

   Broaderassociation

Other forms of asean

plural

aseans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about asean

What does asean mean?

asean means "an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism".

How many syllables are in asean?

asean has 3 syllables: a-se-an. The stress falls on "se". In IPA it is /əˈziən/.

What is another word for asean?

Close synonyms include Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asean a common word?

asean is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.