CUBA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cuba mean? 

• CUBA (noun)
  The noun CUBA has 2 senses:

1. a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba

2. the largest island in the West Indies

  Familiarity information: CUBA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUBA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Cuba; Republic of Cuba

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Cuba"):

capital of Cuba; Cuban capital; Havana (the capital and largest city of Cuba; located in western Cuba; one of the oldest cities in the Americas)

Santiago; Santiago de Cuba (a port city in southeastern Cuba; industrial center)

Guantanamo (a city in southeastern Cuba; site of a United States naval base)

Meronyms (members of "Cuba"):

Cuban (a native or inhabitant of Cuba)

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

Caribbean (region including the Caribbean Islands)

Cuba (the largest island in the West Indies)

Holonyms ("Cuba" is a member of...):

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)

Derivation:

Cuban (of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The largest island in the West Indies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Cuba"):

Cuba; Republic of Cuba (a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba)

San Juan Hill (a hill in eastern Cuba (near Santiago de Cuba) that was captured during the Spanish-American War)

Domain member region:

Santiago; Santiago de Cuba (a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the United States fleet bottled up the Spanish ships in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba and destroyed them when they tried to escape)

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

Greater Antilles (a group of islands in the western West Indies)

Derivation:

Cuban (of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba)

 Context examples 

A chain of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida and north of Cuba.

(Bahamas, NCI Thesaurus)

M. simiae is found primarily in the southwestern United States, Israel and Cuba, with tap water as its suspected reservoir.

(Mycobacterium simiae, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person from or of Cuba or an American citizen of Cuban decent.

(Cuban or Cuban American, NCI Thesaurus)

An island group in the Caribbean Sea, nearly one-half of the way from Cuba to Honduras.

(Cayman Islands, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An island group in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba and west of Jamaica.

(Cayman Islands, NCI Thesaurus)

They found a notable difference between more impacted nearshore reefs in the Florida Keys and the heavily protected offshore reefs in Cuba such as Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen), the largest protected area in the Caribbean, located about 50 miles off the southern coast of Cuba.

(Microbes reflect the health of coral reefs, National Science Foundation)

A study led by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and their colleagues compared seawater from 25 reefs in Cuba and the U.S. Florida Keys and found that reefs with higher microbial diversity and lower concentrations of nutrients and organic carbon were markedly healthier.

(Microbes reflect the health of coral reefs, National Science Foundation)