malay archipelago

1. 1.

   a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia

   SynonymsEast IndiesEast India

   Broaderarchipelago

   Part ofPacific

   PartsSunda IslandsBorneo

Questions about malay archipelago

What does malay archipelago mean?

malay archipelago means "a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia".

What is another word for malay archipelago?

Close synonyms include East Indies, East India. 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 malay archipelago a common word?

malay archipelago 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.