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NORTH ISLAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does North Island mean?
• NORTH ISLAND (noun)
The noun NORTH ISLAND has 1 sense:
1. the smaller but more populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from South Island by Cook Strait
Familiarity information: NORTH ISLAND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The smaller but more populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from South Island by Cook Strait
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Holonyms ("North Island" is a part of...):
New Zealand; New Zealand Islands (North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific)
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