say it: jah-vuh-NEEZ
javanese is a noun and adjective meaning "a native or inhabitant of Java". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a native or inhabitant of Java
the Indonesian language spoken on Java
of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants or its language
“Javanese temples”
“Javanese dialects”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for javanese come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.