MARTINIQUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Martinique mean? 

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

1. an island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands; administered as an overseas region of France

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARTINIQUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands; administered as an overseas region of France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

French region (a geographical subdivision of France)

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

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

Windward Islands; Windward Isles (a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the southern part of the Lesser Antilles)

Holonyms ("Martinique" is a member of...):

French West Indies (the islands in the Lesser Antilles that are administered by France)

 Context examples 

An island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Guadeloupe and north of Martinique.

(Dominica, NCI Thesaurus)