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BONAIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bonaire mean? 

BONAIRE (noun)
  The noun BONAIRE has 1 sense:

1. a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antillesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BONAIRE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

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

Netherlands Antilles (a group of islands in the Lesser Antilles just to the north of Venezuela that are administered by The Netherlands)


 Context examples 


Three Caribbean islands that are part of the Lesser Antilles; Bonaire is east of Aruba and Curacao off the coast of Venezuela, Sint Eustatius and Saba are located south of Sint Maarten and northeast of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

(Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)



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