Word.ws English Dictionary

Krakatoa

US/ˌkɹɑ.kəˈtoʊ.ə/

Krakatoa proper noun: a volcanic island made of ʻaʻā lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.

Proper noun

Krakatoa

  1. a volcanic island made of ʻaʻā lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia

Forms of Krakatoa

alternative formKrakatau

Words formed from Krakatoa

Questions about Krakatoa

What does Krakatoa mean?
Krakatoa means a volcanic island made of ʻaʻā lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.
What part of speech is Krakatoa?
Krakatoa is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Krakatoa?
Krakatoa is pronounced /ˌkɹɑ.kəˈtoʊ.ə/ (US).

Words near Krakatoa in the dictionary

  1. kraits
  2. Krajewski
  3. Krajewskis
  4. Krajina
  5. Krakatau
  6. Krakatoa
  7. Krakatoan
  8. Krakau
  9. krake
  10. kraken
  11. Kraken Mare

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Krakatoa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Krakatoa.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/krakatoa. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.