SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saint Vincent and the Grenadines mean? 

• SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES (noun)
  The noun SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES has 1 sense:

1. an island country in the central Windward Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1979

  Familiarity information: SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island country in the central Windward Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1979

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines"):

Saint Vincent; St. Vincent (an island in the center of the Windward Islands; the largest of the islands comprising Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)

Holonyms ("Saint Vincent and the Grenadines" is a part of...):

Caribbean (region including the Caribbean Islands)

Windward Islands; Windward Isles (a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the southern part of the Lesser Antilles)

Holonyms ("Saint Vincent and the Grenadines" 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 

An island between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and north of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Grenada, NCI Thesaurus)