FIJI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fiji mean? 

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

1. an independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIJI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Fiji; Republic of Fiji

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Fiji"):

Suva (the capital and largest city of Fiji (on Viti Levu island))

Meronyms (members of "Fiji"):

Fijian (a native or inhabitant of Fiji)

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

Fiji Islands; Fijis (a group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral)

Derivation:

Fijian (of or relating to Fiji or its people or language or culture)

 Context examples 

The highest mortality rates from asthma were recorded in Thailand, Mauritius, Fiji, the Philippines and South Africa.

(Smoother walls healthier for lungs, SciDev.Net)

Denotes the inhabitants of Fiji, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Fiji Islander, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers examined three types of coral in reefs off the coast of Fiji, Acropora millepora, Porites cylindrica, and Pocillopora damicornis.

(Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, Wikinews)

Well, well, he added, looking round at the walls of the room, here are all my old curios, the same as ever: the narwhal’s horn from the Arctic, and the blowfish from the Moluccas, and the paddles from Fiji, and the picture of the Ca Ira with Lord Hotham in chase.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)