Borneo
pronunciation
How to pronounce Borneo in British English:
UK [ˈbɔ:niəu]
How to pronounce Borneo in American English:
US [ˈbɔrniˌo]
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- Noun:
- 3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago
Word Origin
- Borneo
- large island in Indonesia, from Portuguese alteration of Brunei, which is today the name of a sultanate on the island. This is Hindi and probably ultimately from Sanskrit bhumi "land, region."
Example
- 1. Mycena silvaelucens , a glow-in-the-dark mushroom discovered in borneo , malaysia
- 2. Then there was the time he and his crew were stuck in borneo and strapped for something to film .
- 3. They only live in borneo and sumatra , use tools to eat and fashion umbrellas out of leaves .
- 4. Starting in 1917 , they documented the people and wildlife they found on their safaris through the south pacific , africa and borneo .
- 5. Churchill mining , a london-listed firm , announced in may 2008 that it had found 150m tonnes of coal in indonesian borneo .