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ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Aleutian Islands mean?
• ALEUTIAN ISLANDS (noun)
The noun ALEUTIAN ISLANDS has 1 sense:
1. an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska
Familiarity information: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Aleutian Islands; Aleutians
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Domain member region:
Aleut (a community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska)
Holonyms ("Aleutian Islands" is a part of...):
AK; Alaska; Last Frontier (a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union)
Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)
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