nounanother name for Singapore
nounSingapore; Singaporean | From '星嘉坡' (old name for Singapore) and 洲 (island); nowadays only used in established special nouns such as 星洲米粉 (Singapore Rice Noodles) or 星洲日報 (Sin Chew Jit Poh, a newspaper in Malaysia). The formal Chinese name for Singapore is 新加坡