MICRONESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Micronesia mean? 

• MICRONESIA (noun)
  The noun MICRONESIA has 2 senses:

1. a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986

2. the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania

  Familiarity information: MICRONESIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICRONESIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Federated States of Micronesia; Micronesia; TT

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Micronesia"):

Kolonia (capital of Micronesia)

Ladrone Islands; Mariana Islands; Marianas (a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521)

Caroline Islands (a long archipelago of more than 500 islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines)

Marshall Islands (a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia)

Ellice Islands; Tuvalu (a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii)

Kiribati; Republic of Kiribati (an island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator)

Gilbert and Ellice Islands (a former British possession in Micronesia)

Nauru; Nauru Island; Pleasant Island (a small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands)

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

Micronesia (the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The islands in the northwestern part of Oceania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Micronesia"):

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)

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

Oceania; Oceanica (a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago))

Austronesia (islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia))

 Context examples 

According to the study, fisheries catches are expected to fall by more than 50 per cent by the year 2050 for some countries: the Cook Islands, Micronesia, Niue and Tuvalu.

(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)

For three weeks, a titanium-encased hydrophone recorded ambient noise from the ocean floor at a depth of more than 36,000 feet, or 7 miles, in the Challenger Deep trough in the Mariana Trench near Micronesia.

(Seven miles deep, the ocean is still a noisy place, NOAA)