WAKE ISLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wake Island mean? 

• WAKE ISLAND (noun)
  The noun WAKE ISLAND has 1 sense:

1. an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii

  Familiarity information: WAKE ISLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAKE ISLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Wake; Wake Island

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Domain member region:

Battle of Wake; Battle of Wake Island (in December 1941 the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines)

Holonyms ("Wake Island" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)