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malta

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,182 of 15,258mostly written

Malta is the tiny island country in the middle of the Mediterranean. Fly to Malta, born in Malta, the coast of Malta.

It is one of the smallest countries in the world and one of the most densely populated, and it sits at the crossing point of the Mediterranean, which is why everybody has fought over it. Maltese and English are both official languages.

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Definitions of malta

  1. 1nounmaltaA small Mediterranean island country.B1+

    “Malta lies in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Sicily.”

malta is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. German

    Malzbier

  2. Spanish

    malta

  3. English, today

    malta

From Spanish malta, in turn from German Malzbier.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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