ELLICE ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ellice Islands mean? 

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

1. a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELLICE ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Ellice Islands; Tuvalu

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Ellice Islands"):

Tuvalu (a small island republic on the Tuvalu islands; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978)

Holonyms ("Ellice 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)