HISPANIOLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hispaniola mean? 

• HISPANIOLA (noun)
  The noun HISPANIOLA has 1 sense:

1. an island in the West Indies

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HISPANIOLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island in the West Indies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Haiti; Hayti; Hispaniola

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Hispaniola"):

Haiti; Republic of Haiti (a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola; achieved independence from France in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere)

Dominican Republic (a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola)

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

Greater Antilles (a group of islands in the western West Indies)

Derivation:

Hispaniolan (of or relating to the West Indian island of Hispaniola)

 Context examples 

The Hispaniola lay some way out, and we went under the figureheads and round the sterns of many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated underneath our keel, and sometimes swung above us.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A country comprising the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Haiti.

(Dominican Republic, NCI Thesaurus)