AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American Virgin Islands mean? 

• AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS has 1 sense:

1. more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

More than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

American Virgin Islands; United States Virgin Islands; VI

Instance hypernyms:

possession (a territory that is controlled by a ruling state)

Holonyms ("American Virgin Islands" is a part of...):

Virgin Islands (a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain)