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SAINT CHRISTOPHER-NEVIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saint Christopher-Nevis mean? 

SAINT CHRISTOPHER-NEVIS (noun)
  The noun SAINT CHRISTOPHER-NEVIS has 1 sense:

1. a country on several of the Leeward Islands; located to the east southeast of Puerto Rico; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1983play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SAINT CHRISTOPHER-NEVIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A country on several of the Leeward Islands; located to the east southeast of Puerto Rico; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1983

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Christopher-Nevis; Saint Kitts and Nevis; St. Christopher-Nevis; St. Kitts and Nevis

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Saint Christopher-Nevis"):

Saint Christopher; Saint Kitts; St. Christopher; St. Kitts (the largest of the islands comprising Saint Christopher-Nevis)

Basseterre (the capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis on the island of Saint Christopher)

Nevis; Sombrero (one of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis)

Holonyms ("Saint Christopher-Nevis" is a part of...):

Caribbean (region including the Caribbean Islands)

Leeward Islands (a group of islands in the eastern West Indies)

Holonyms ("Saint Christopher-Nevis" is a member of...):

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)


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