GUADELOUPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Guadeloupe mean? 

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

1. an island territory of France located in the eastern West Indies; tourism is the major industry

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUADELOUPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island territory of France located in the eastern West Indies; tourism is the major industry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

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

Leeward Islands (a group of islands in the eastern West Indies)

Holonyms ("Guadeloupe" is a member of...):

French West Indies (the islands in the Lesser Antilles that are administered by France)

 Context examples 

An island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Guadeloupe and north of Martinique.

(Dominica, NCI Thesaurus)