BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bismarck Archipelago mean? 

• BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO (noun)
  The noun BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO has 1 sense:

1. a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea

  Familiarity information: BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Bismarck Archipelago"):

Admiralty Islands (a group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago)

New Britain (the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea)

New Ireland (an island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea)

Holonyms ("Bismarck Archipelago" is a part of...):

Melanesia (the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania)

Independent State of Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea (a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations)