MALDIVE ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Maldive Islands mean? 

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

1. a group of about 1,200 small coral islands (about 220 inhabited) in the Indian ocean

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALDIVE ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of about 1,200 small coral islands (about 220 inhabited) in the Indian ocean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Maldive Islands; Maldives

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Maldive Islands"):

Maldives; Republic of Maldives (a republic on the Maldive Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1965)

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

Indian Ocean (the 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south)