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SAINT VINCENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saint Vincent mean? 

SAINT VINCENT (noun)
  The noun SAINT VINCENT has 1 sense:

1. an island in the center of the Windward Islands; the largest of the islands comprising Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesplay

  Familiarity information: SAINT VINCENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SAINT VINCENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An island in the center of the Windward Islands; the largest of the islands comprising Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Saint Vincent; St. Vincent

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Saint Vincent"):

Kingstown (the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; on Saint Vincent)

Holonyms ("Saint Vincent" is a part of...):

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; St. Vincent and the Grenadines (an island country in the central Windward Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1979)


 Context examples 


An island between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and north of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Grenada, NCI Thesaurus)



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