Definitions for Kampong

Kampong kam·pong

Spelling: [kahm-pawng, -pong, kahm-pawng, -pong]
IPA: /ˈkɑm pɔŋ, -pɒŋ, kɑmˈpɔŋ, -ˈpɒŋ/

Kampong is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in Kampong (agkmnop).

Definitions for Kampong

noun

  1. a small village or community of houses in Malay-speaking lands.

Origin of Kampong

1835-45; Malay kampung, kampong grouping or gathering together, especially a village; cf. compound2

Examples for Kampong

Almost every day after that did we visit the kampong, and were always welcomed in the same cordial manner.

When we go out alone, we always stop and pay a visit to some of the kampong houses.

And so I laughed again when I heard of a small outbreak in kampong Raja.

Next to it is the kampong Perambat, from the casting net which its inhabitants use in fishing.

We go from kampong to kampong to find Massa, but no see him.

I asked, bestowing on him the title the Malays of kampong Glam had given him as a perpetual reminder of his famous adventure.

There they stood, mystified at seeing white men in the village kampong.

There are suggestions of a perkara with a woman, in the kampong, of jealousy.

And just so the sunset itself, that wicked night at the Malay kampong, had glowered redly.

They are beginning to grow vegetables on a large scale, even in the kampong, around the Malay camp.

Word Value for Kampong
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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