a. and sb. [f. JAVA + -AN.] a. adj. Of Java. b. sb. A native of Java.

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1606.  E. Scott (title), An exact Discovrse … of the East Indians, as well Chyneses as Iauans.

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1613.  Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 541. A Iavan King … which had a hundred wives.

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1883.  G. Allen, Colin Clout’s Calendar, xii. 69. The Javan and Indian fauna.

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