COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Commonwealth of Puerto Rico mean? 

• COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO (noun)
  The noun COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO has 1 sense:

1. a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico

  Familiarity information: COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Porto Rico; PR; Puerto Rico

Instance hypernyms:

commonwealth (the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico))

Meronyms (parts of "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico"):

Porto Rico; Puerto Rico (the smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean)

San Juan (the capital and largest city of Puerto Rico)

Culebra (a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico with miles of beautiful beaches)

Vieques (a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico used for target practice by the United States Navy)

Holonyms ("Commonwealth of Puerto Rico" is a part of...):

Caribbean (region including the Caribbean Islands)

Greater Antilles (a group of islands in the western West Indies)