FRENCH POLYNESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does French Polynesia mean? 

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

1. a French overseas possession in the South Pacific

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRENCH POLYNESIA (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 Polynesia"):

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 Polynesia" is a part of...):

Polynesia (the islands in the eastern part of Oceania)

 Context examples 

A country in the Pacific, comprised of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about midway between Peru and New Zealand, southeast of French Polynesia.

(Pitcairn, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Australia, between Tonga and French Polynesia.

(Cook Islands, NCI Thesaurus)

The research was conducted in part at NSF’s Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research site in French Polynesia, one of 28 such NSF long-term research sites across the country and around the globe.

(Coral reefs shifting away from equatorial waters, National Science Foundation)