Associations to the word «Formosa»

Wiktionary

FORMOSA, proper noun. The name given to Taiwan island (Ilha Formosa, "Beautiful Isle") by passing Portuguese mariners in 1544.
FORMOSA, proper noun. The name of a province of Argentina.
FORMOSA, proper noun. A city of Argentina, capital of Formosa Province.
FORMOSA STRAIT, proper noun. The Taiwan Strait.

Dictionary definition

FORMOSA, noun. An island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea.

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