kampong.

A village or local settlement in Malay-speaking and related Southeast Asian contexts.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• a coastal kampong
• houses in a kampong

On the page

The coastal kampong faced the water where the supply boats landed.

The novel’s kampong changed with the new road rather than remaining outside history.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Singular kampong; plural kampongs. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.