PUERTO RICO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Puerto Rico mean? 

• PUERTO RICO (noun)
  The noun PUERTO RICO has 2 senses:

1. a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico

2. the smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean

  Familiarity information: PUERTO RICO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUERTO RICO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Porto Rico; PR; Puerto Rico

Instance hypernyms:

commonwealth (the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico))

Meronyms (parts of "Puerto Rico"):

Porto Rico; Puerto Rico (the smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean)

San Juan (the capital and largest city of Puerto Rico)

Culebra (a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico with miles of beautiful beaches)

Vieques (a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico used for target practice by the United States Navy)

Holonyms ("Puerto Rico" is a part of...):

Caribbean (region including the Caribbean Islands)

Greater Antilles (a group of islands in the western West Indies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Porto Rico; Puerto Rico

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Puerto Rico" is a part of...):

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Porto Rico; PR; Puerto Rico (a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico)

 Context examples 

For colorful, graceful sea fans swaying on coral reefs in the waters around Puerto Rico, copper is an emerging threat in an era of warming oceans.

(Sea fan corals face new threat in warming ocean: copper, National Science Foundation)

Radar imaging is planned at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in California and at the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

(Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1, NASA)

Until September 8, astronomers will be using the Goldstone Solar System Radar in California and the National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to reveal more about it.

(Biggest Asteroid Ever Detected Flies Past Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and Tobago.

(Dominica, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east-southeast of Puerto Rico.

(Antigua and Barbuda, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The group headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has research sites at nearly 200 major medical centers, university hospitals, large oncology practice groups, and health maintenance organizations in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Australia.

(National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, NCI Thesaurus)