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ALEUTIANS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aleutians mean? 

ALEUTIANS (noun)
  The noun ALEUTIANS has 1 sense:

1. an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaskaplay

  Familiarity information: ALEUTIANS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ALEUTIANS (noun)


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 ("Aleutians" 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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