FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Federated States of Micronesia mean? 

• FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA (noun)
  The noun FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA has 1 sense:

1. a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986

  Familiarity information: FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Federated States of Micronesia; Micronesia; TT

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Federated States of Micronesia"):

Kolonia (capital of Micronesia)

Ladrone Islands; Mariana Islands; Marianas (a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521)

Caroline Islands (a long archipelago of more than 500 islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines)

Marshall Islands (a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia)

Ellice Islands; Tuvalu (a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii)

Kiribati; Republic of Kiribati (an island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator)

Gilbert and Ellice Islands (a former British possession in Micronesia)

Nauru; Nauru Island; Pleasant Island (a small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands)

Holonyms ("Federated States of Micronesia" is a part of...):

Micronesia (the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania)