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SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Saint Kitts and Nevis mean?
• SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS (noun)
The noun SAINT KITTS AND 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 1983
Familiarity information: SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SAINT KITTS AND 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 Kitts and 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 Kitts and Nevis" is a part of...):
Caribbean (region including the Caribbean Islands)
Leeward Islands (a group of islands in the eastern West Indies)
Holonyms ("Saint Kitts and 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)
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)
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