NEVIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nevis mean? 

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

1. one of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEVIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Christopher-Nevis; Saint Kitts and Nevis; St. Christopher-Nevis; St. Kitts and Nevis (a country on several of the Leeward Islands; located to the east southeast of Puerto Rico; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1983)

 Context examples 

A group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, east of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

(Antigua and Barbuda, NCI Thesaurus)

Three Caribbean islands that are part of the Lesser Antilles; Bonaire is east of Aruba and Curacao off the coast of Venezuela, Sint Eustatius and Saba are located south of Sint Maarten and northeast of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

(Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)