FRENCH OCEANIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does French Oceania mean? 

• FRENCH OCEANIA (noun)
  The noun FRENCH OCEANIA has 1 sense:

1. a French overseas possession in the South Pacific

  Familiarity information: FRENCH OCEANIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRENCH OCEANIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A French overseas possession in the South Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

French Oceania; French Polynesia

Instance hypernyms:

possession (a territory that is controlled by a ruling state)

Meronyms (parts of "French Oceania"):

Society Islands (an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa)

Low Archipelago; Paumotu Archipelago; Tuamotu Archipelago (a group of about 80 coral islands in French Polynesia)

Austral Islands; Tubuai Islands (a chain of small islands in French Polynesia)

Gambier Islands (a group of islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia)

Iles Marquises; Marquesas Islands (a group of volcanic islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia)

Holonyms ("French Oceania" is a part of...):

Polynesia (the islands in the eastern part of Oceania)