MIDWAY ISLANDS
Dictionary entry overview: What does Midway Islands mean? • MIDWAY ISLANDS (noun)
The noun MIDWAY ISLANDS has 1 sense:
1. an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 mile northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base
Familiarity information: MIDWAY ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MIDWAY ISLANDS (noun)
Meaning:
An atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 mile northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
atoll (an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon)
Domain member region:
Battle of Midway; Midway (naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands)
Holonyms ("Midway Islands" is a part of...):
Hawaiian Islands; Sandwich Islands (a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific)
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