RYUKYU ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ryukyu Islands mean? 

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

1. a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RYUKYU ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Ryukyu Islands"):

Okinawa (the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands)

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

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)