Batavia
pronunciation
How to pronounce Batavia in British English:
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How to pronounce Batavia in American English:
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Word Origin
- Batavia
- former name of Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, when it was the Dutch East Indies, a colony of the Netherlands; from Batavia, an ancient name for a region of Holland, from Latin Batavi, a people who dwelt between the Rhine and the Waal on the island of Betawe.
Example
- 1. Their godowns at batavia were packed with unexportable goods .
- 2. But I 'm enjoying batavia 's graveyard more because as I sit there reading it , I 'm thinking , " oh my god , this actually happened . "
- 3. Out of the 340 people who had been on the batavia , about 280 survived the wreck . About 20 or 30 of them were women .
- 4. Ramsey also helped to found brookhaven national laboratory in upton , new york , and fermilab in batavia , illinois .
- 5. Last year , dan hooper of fermilab in batavia , illinois used data from the fermi space telescope to show what could be radiation from a similarly lightweight dark matter particle coming from the centre of the milky way .