MARSHALL ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Marshall Islands mean? 

• MARSHALL ISLANDS (noun)
  The noun MARSHALL ISLANDS has 2 senses:

1. a republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands

2. a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia

  Familiarity information: MARSHALL ISLANDS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARSHALL ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Marshall Islands; Republic of the Marshall Islands

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

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

Marshall Islands (a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Marshall Islands"):

Marshall Islands; Republic of the Marshall Islands (a republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands)

Bikini (an atoll in the Marshall Islands; formerly used by the United States as a site for testing nuclear weapons)

Eniwetok (an atoll in the Marshall Islands; site of an amphibious assault in World War II; later used temporarily by the United States to test atomic bombs)

Kwajalein (an atoll in the western Marshall Islands that was used as a Japanese air and naval base during World War II)

Holonyms ("Marshall 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 

An island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia, west of the Marshall Islands and north of the Solomon Islands.

(Micronesia, Federated States of, NCI Thesaurus)