AZORES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Azores mean? 

• AZORES (noun)
  The noun AZORES has 1 sense:

1. islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal

  Familiarity information: AZORES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AZORES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Acores; Azores

Context example:

the Azores are strategically located on transatlantic air and shipping routes

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Azores" is a part of...):

Portugal; Portuguese Republic (a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil))

 Context examples 

We passed the Straits and worked up to the Azores, where we fell in with the La Sabina from the Mauritius with sugar and spices.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was doubly amazed that he had been in the Hawaiian Islands, whither she had migrated from the Azores with her people.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is native to Europe, West Asia, North Africa, Madeira and the Azores, and is naturalized in many parts of the world, notably North America and Australia.

(Hypericum perforatum, NCI Thesaurus)

Maria was amazed to learn that he had been in the Azores, where she had lived until she was eleven.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)