SOUTH ISLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does South Island mean? 

• SOUTH ISLAND (noun)
  The noun SOUTH ISLAND has 1 sense:

1. the larger but less populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from North Island by Cook Strait

  Familiarity information: SOUTH ISLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH ISLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The larger but less populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from North Island by Cook Strait

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("South Island" is a part of...):

New Zealand; New Zealand Islands (North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific)

 Context examples 

The theory that Earth has a solid core was first proposed in 1936 when female Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann reanalysed data from the magnitude-7.3 1929 earthquake that struck New Zealand's south island.

(Earth's Core Confirmed to Be Solid After 80 Years of Study, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)