Crossword clues for serang
serang
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Serang \Se*rang"\, n. [Per. sarhang a commander.] The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.
Wiktionary
n. (context India dated English) A native Indian boatswain.
Wikipedia
Serang municipality (Indonesian: Kota Serang) is the capital of Banten province and was formerly also the administrative center of Serang Regency in Indonesia (the Regency's capital is now at Baros). The city is located towards the north of Banten province. Before Banten province was formed in 2000 Serang was part of West Java province.
Serang has a tropical rainforest climate, with no dry season month. It faces the Java Sea, which is home to Thousand Islands.
Serang was reported as having a population of 576,961 in the 2010 census, making it the third most populous city in the province of Banten. The latest official population estimate (for January 2014) is 643,101. Serang is located approximately 15 km from the border of Jabodetabek and sometimes considered as amalgamated with the Greater Jakarta.
Serang is a city in Indonesia.
Serang may also refer to:
- Serang Regency, the regency of which Serang is the capital
- Seram, an Indonesian island
- Serang River, a river on Java
- The boatswain of a lascar ship's crew
- SERANG is the abbreviation for Selangor Young People Secretariat or in , a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Malaysia.
Usage examples of "serang".
Captain or leader, or whatever he might be, he was most evidently the serang of that labour party.
A corpulent Dutchman with spectacles and a silk umbrella was the head serang of the place, and after him trotted his aide-de-camp, a little brown Malay carrying a sword.
Two officers came on board, listened to the serang, tried to talk with the Arab, couldn't make head or tail of it: but of course the nature of the emergency was obvious enough.
McElwee, Gill and the serang were of the same opinion,, and although they had not been able to make any observation through the clouds of flying grit their dead-reckonings all agreed in setting the Niobe a little south of Ras Minah, with a fine broad stretch of unencumbered channel before her.
This infernal publicity is too shocking: there he sits while all these confounded natives, serangs, lascars, quartermasters, are giving evidence that's enough to burn a man to ashes with shame.