BELAU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Belau mean? 

• BELAU (noun)
  The noun BELAU has 1 sense:

1. a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELAU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Belau; Palau; Palau Islands; Pelew

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Belau"):

Palau; Republic of Palau; TT (a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States)

Holonyms ("Belau" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)