BERMUDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bermuda mean? 

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

1. a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BERMUDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bermuda; Bermudas

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (members of "Bermuda"):

Bermudan; Bermudian (a native or inhabitant of Bermuda)

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

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

 Context examples 

We do not call Bermuda or Bahama, you know, the West Indies.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

About 30 million years ago, a disturbance in the transition zone caused an upwelling of magma material to rise to the surface, forming a now-dormant volcano under the Atlantic Ocean, then forming Bermuda.

(Scientists discover a new way volcanoes form, NSF)

Good has come out of evil, however, for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)