AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS
Dictionary entry overview: What does American Virgin Islands mean? • AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS (noun)
The noun AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS has 1 sense:
1. more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States
Familiarity information: AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS (noun)
Meaning:
More than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
American Virgin Islands; United States Virgin Islands; VI
Instance hypernyms:
possession (a territory that is controlled by a ruling state)
Holonyms ("American Virgin Islands" is a part of...):
Virgin Islands (a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain)
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