REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Republic of Kiribati mean? 

• REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI (noun)
  The noun REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI has 1 sense:

1. an island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator

  Familiarity information: REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Kiribati; Republic of Kiribati

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Republic of Kiribati"):

Gilbert Islands (a group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979)

Bairiki; Tarawa (national capital of Kiribati)

Holonyms ("Republic of Kiribati" 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)