MIDWAY ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Midway Islands mean? 

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

1. an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 miles to the northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDWAY ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 miles to the northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

atoll (an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon)

Domain member region:

Battle of Midway; Midway (naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands)

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

H.I.; Hawaiian Islands; Sandwich Islands (a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific)