Celebes

Speech parts

1. Celebes - Noun

2. Celebes - Proper noun

Meaning

a mountainous island in eastern Indonesia

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Sulawesi java New Guinea Maldives Borneo South China Sea Moluccas Andaman Sea Gulf of Thailand Sumatra Malay Peninsula Nicobar Islands Andaman Islands Wallacea Sundaland
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Phrases with the word

Celebes crested macaque Celebes warty pig

Examples

Éluard bought two of Ernst's paintings (Celebes and Oedipus Rex) and selected six collages to illustrate his poetry collection Répétitions. Source: Internet

C.C. Macknight (1975) The emergence of civilization in South Celebes and elsewhere, in A. Reid and L. Castles (ed.) Pre-Colonial state systems in Southeast Asia. Source: Internet

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and President Aquino approved last Thursday an agreement that unsnarled their countries’ once-overlapping EEZs in the Celebes and Mindanao Seas. Source: Internet

He set his sights eastward in 1545 and planned a missionary journey to Makassar on the island of Celebes (today's Indonesia). Source: Internet

We knew it was in Indonesia and we knew that the island was once called 'Celebes', but at that point we'd never travelled further east in the country than Bali. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

celeb celebdom Celebean Celebes crested macaque Celebes Sea Celebes warty pig