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FRIENDLY ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Friendly Islands mean? 

FRIENDLY ISLANDS (noun)
  The noun FRIENDLY ISLANDS has 1 sense:

1. a monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970play

  Familiarity information: FRIENDLY ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FRIENDLY ISLANDS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Friendly Islands; Kingdom of Tonga; Tonga

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (members of "Friendly Islands"):

Tongan (a Polynesian native or inhabitant of Tonga)

Holonyms ("Friendly Islands" is a part of...):

Polynesia (the islands in the eastern part of Oceania)


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