PLEASANT ISLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pleasant Island mean? 

• PLEASANT ISLAND (noun)
  The noun PLEASANT ISLAND has 1 sense:

1. a small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands

  Familiarity information: PLEASANT ISLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLEASANT ISLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Nauru; Nauru Island; Pleasant Island

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Pleasant Island"):

Nauru; Republic of Nauru (an island republic on Nauru Island; phosphate exports support the economy)

Holonyms ("Pleasant Island" 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)