BAHAMAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bahamas mean? 

• BAHAMAS (noun)
  The noun BAHAMAS has 1 sense:

1. island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort

  Familiarity information: BAHAMAS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAHAMAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bahama Islands; Bahamas; Commonwealth of the Bahamas

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Bahamas"):

capital of the Bahamas; Nassau (the capital of the Bahamas)

Meronyms (members of "Bahamas"):

Bahamian (a native or inhabitant of the Bahamas)

Holonyms ("Bahamas" is a part of...):

Caribbean (region including the Caribbean Islands)

the Indies; West Indies (the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area)

Holonyms ("Bahamas" is a member of...):

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)

Derivation:

Bahamian (of or relating to or characteristic of the Bahama Islands or their inhabitants)

 Context examples 

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photo on Oct. 2, 2015, from the International Space Station and wrote on Twitter, Early morning shot of Hurricane ‎Joaquin‬ from space station before reaching ‪‎Bahamas‬.

(Hurricane Joaquin From the International Space Station, NASA)

Denotes the inhabitants of the Bahamas, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Bahamian, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists have recovered the first genetic data from an extinct bird in the Caribbean, thanks to the remarkably preserved bones of a Creighton's caracara in a flooded sinkhole on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas.

(Extinct Caribbean bird yields DNA after 2,500 years in watery grave, National Science Foundation)

But the dark, oxygen-free depths of a 100-foot blue hole known as Sawmill Sink provided ideal preservation conditions for the bones of Caracara creightoni, a species of large carrion-eating falcon that disappeared soon after humans arrived in the Bahamas about 1,000 years ago.

(Extinct Caribbean bird yields DNA after 2,500 years in watery grave, National Science Foundation)