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javan
/dʒəˈvɑn/
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What does javan mean?
adjective
- Pertaining to, or from, the island of Java
- Belonging to, or descended from, its Javanese main people and its culture
noun
- An inhabitant of the Indonesian island Java
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noun
- A member or descendant of Java's main, Javanese ethno-linguistic group, by far the largest in Indonesia
proper noun
- The fourth son of Japheth
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IPA pronunciation
/dʒəˈvɑn/
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We are then given the names of the descendants of Gomer and Javan, but not of Magog.
And that harpoon—so like a corkscrew now—was flung in Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco.
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In the earliest years of the fourteenth century Bruni was a dependency of Majapahit, but seems to have recovered its independence during the minority of the Javan king.
In some few genera and species, as in Galloperdix, Acomus, and the Javan peacock (Pavo muticus), the females, as well as the males, possess well-developed leg-spurs.
Professor Bischoff ignores the fact that long before he wrote, Gratiolet had suggested the separation of the Lemurs from the other Primates on the very ground of the difference in their cerebral characters; and that Professor Flower had made the following observations in the course of his description of the brain of the Javan Loris: (75.