Ambonese
/ˌambə(ʊ)ˈniːz
/(also Amboinese)
adjective
Relating to or characteristic of the Indonesian island of Ambon, its inhabitants, or the language spoken there: members of the Ambonese community...
- Thousands of Ambonese Christians fled to the Netherlands.
- The Dutch rulers recruited army personnel from the Manadonese and Ambonese ethnic groups.
- The Ambonese public and most legislators rejected the idea.
noun (plural same)
1A native or inhabitant of the Indonesian island of Ambon: the Ambonese have preserved their quite separate identity...
- In the past, Ambonese living outside the province returned to their home towns to celebrate.
- As a retired general of the Indonesian army and an Ambonese, he is supposed to have all the insider knowledge needed to judge events correctly.
- He urged the Ambonese to sort out the problem themselves and asked the Vice President to oversee progress.
2 [mass noun] The language of the Indonesian island of Ambon: no one there could speak Ambonese...
- Ambonese Malay is truly a mixed language of central Maluku and reflects the social history of the region.
- The Ambonese language, called Ambonese Malay, is the first or second language of well over a million people.
- Typical for Ambonese is the change of *akAn, the original object preposition, into an inanimate third person pronoun.
Rhymes
- undemocratic
- undemocratically
- undemonstrated
- undemonstrative
- undemonstratively
- undemonstrativeness
- undeniable
- undeniably
- undenied
- undenominational
- undented
- undependable
- under
- under-
- underachieve
- underachievement
- underachiever
- under a cloud
- underact
- underactive
- underage
- underappreciate
- underappreciation
- underarm
- under arms