GILBERT ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gilbert Islands mean? 

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

1. a group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GILBERT ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Domain member region:

Makin; Tarawa; Tarawa-Makin (battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting)

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

Kiribati; Republic of Kiribati (an island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator)