GILBERT ISLANDS
Dictionary entry overview: What does Gilbert Islands mean? • GILBERT ISLANDS (noun)
The noun GILBERT ISLANDS has 1 sense:
1. a group of islands in Micronesia southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979
Familiarity information: GILBERT ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GILBERT ISLANDS (noun)
Meaning:
A group of islands in Micronesia southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Domain member region:
Makin; Tarawa; Tarawa-Makin (battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting)
Holonyms ("Gilbert Islands" is a part of...):
Kiribati; Republic of Kiribati (an island republic in the west central Pacific just south of the equator)
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