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ARUBA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Aruba mean?
• ARUBA (noun)
The noun ARUBA has 1 sense:
1. a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles
Familiarity information: ARUBA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Holonyms ("Aruba" is a part of...):
Netherlands Antilles (a group of islands in the Lesser Antilles just to the north of Venezuela that are administered by The Netherlands)
Context examples
Three Caribbean islands that are part of the Lesser Antilles; Bonaire is east of Aruba and Curacao off the coast of Venezuela, Sint Eustatius and Saba are located south of Sint Maarten and northeast of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
(Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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