HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hawaiian Islands mean? 

• HAWAIIAN ISLANDS (noun)
  The noun HAWAIIAN ISLANDS has 1 sense:

1. a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific

  Familiarity information: HAWAIIAN ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAWAIIAN ISLANDS (noun)

Meaning:

A group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Hawaiian Islands; Sandwich Islands

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Hawaiian Islands"):

Midway Islands (an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 mile northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base)

Oahu; Oahu Island (an island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai); the chief island of the state)

Nihau; Nihau Island (the most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai))

Molokai; Molokai Island (an island of central Hawaii (between Maui and Oahu))

Maui; Maui Island (the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands)

Lanai; Lanai Island (an island of central Hawaii; a pineapple-growing area)

Kauai; Kauai Island (an island of Hawaii northwest of Oahu)

Kahoolawe; Kahoolawe Island (an island of south-central Hawaii)

Hawaii; Hawaii Island (the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks)

Aloha State; Hawai'i; Hawaii; HI (a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands)

Holonyms ("Hawaiian Islands" is a part of...):

Polynesia (the islands in the eastern part of Oceania)