SOCIETY ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Society Islands mean? 

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

1. an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIETY ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Society Islands"):

Tahiti (an island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin)

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

French Oceania; French Polynesia (a French overseas possession in the South Pacific)