CAROLINE ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caroline Islands mean? 

• CAROLINE ISLANDS (noun)
  The noun CAROLINE ISLANDS has 1 sense:

1. a long archipelago of more than 500 islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines

  Familiarity information: CAROLINE ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAROLINE ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long archipelago of more than 500 islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Caroline Islands" is a part of...):

Federated States of Micronesia; Micronesia; TT (a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986)

 Context examples 

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

(Carolinian, NCI Thesaurus)