Associations to the word «Celebes»

Wiktionary

CELEBES, proper noun. Former name of Sulawesi.
CELEBES SEA, proper noun. The area of the western Pacific Ocean bounded by the Sulu Sea, the island of Borneo, the Sangihe Islands and Sulawesi.

Dictionary definition

CELEBES, noun. A mountainous island in eastern Indonesia.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope