KIRIBATI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kiribati mean? 

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

1. an island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KIRIBATI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Kiribati; Republic of Kiribati

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Kiribati"):

Gilbert Islands (a group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979)

Bairiki; Tarawa (national capital of Kiribati)

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

Federated States of Micronesia; Micronesia; TT (a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986)

 Context examples 

The situation is even more stark in Kiribati, where just 1 per cent of fish catch would address the calcium deficiencies affecting 82 per cent of people living in the Pacific island nation.

(Fairer fish trade could fix nutrient deficiencies in coastal countries, SciDev.Net)