NEW ZEALAND ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Zealand Islands mean? 

• NEW ZEALAND ISLANDS (noun)
  The noun NEW ZEALAND ISLANDS has 1 sense:

1. North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW ZEALAND ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

New Zealand; New Zealand Islands

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "New Zealand Islands"):

North Island (the smaller but more populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from South Island by Cook Strait)

South Island (the larger but less populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from North Island by Cook Strait)

New Zealand (an independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery)

Holonyms ("New Zealand Islands" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)