HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hawaiian Islands mean? 

• HAWAIIAN ISLANDS (noun)
  The noun HAWAIIAN ISLANDS has 1 sense:

1. a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAWAIIAN ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

H.I.; Hawaiian Islands; Sandwich Islands

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Hawaiian Islands"):

Aloha State; Haw.; Hawai'i; Hawaii; HI (a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands)

Hawaii; Hawaii Island (the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks)

Kahoolawe; Kahoolawe Island (an island of south-central Hawaii)

Kauai; Kauai Island (an island of Hawaii to the northwest of Oahu)

Lanai; Lanai Island (an island of central Hawaii; a pineapple-growing area)

Maui; Maui Island (the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands)

Molokai; Molokai Island (an island of central Hawaii (between Maui and Oahu))

Nihau; Nihau Island (the most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai))

Oahu; Oahu Island (an island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai); the chief island of the state)

Midway Islands (an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 miles to the northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base)

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

Polynesia (the islands in the eastern part of Oceania)

 Context examples 

Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, located in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, will expand from 139,818 square miles to 582,578 square miles.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)

He had had the fever in a secret colony of thirty lepers on one of the Hawaiian Islands.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was doubly amazed that he had been in the Hawaiian Islands, whither she had migrated from the Azores with her people.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)