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Timor-Leste

/tiˈmɔːr ˈlɛʃteɪ/

Timor-Leste proper noun: east Timor (a country in Southeast Asia occupying half the island of Timor).

Proper noun

Timor-Leste

  1. East Timor (a country in Southeast Asia occupying half the island of Timor)

Origin of Timor-Leste

From Portuguese Timor-Leste (literally “East Timor”).

Phrases with Timor-Leste

Questions about Timor-Leste

What does Timor-Leste mean?
Timor-Leste means east Timor (a country in Southeast Asia occupying half the island of Timor).
What part of speech is Timor-Leste?
Timor-Leste is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Timor-Leste?
Timor-Leste is pronounced /tiˈmɔːr ˈlɛʃteɪ/.

Words near Timor-Leste in the dictionary

  1. Timor
  2. Timor boobook
  3. Timor boobooks
  4. Timor Sea
  5. Timor West
  6. Timor-Leste
  7. Timorese
  8. Timorese horseshoe bat
  9. Timorese horseshoe bats
  10. Timoric
  11. timoroso

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Timor-Leste (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.

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