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SABA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saba mean? 

SABA (noun)
  The noun SABA has 1 sense:

1. a island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcanoplay

  Familiarity information: SABA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SABA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Netherlands Antilles (a group of islands in the Lesser Antilles just to the north of Venezuela that are administered by The Netherlands)


 Context examples 


Three Caribbean islands that are part of the Lesser Antilles; Bonaire is east of Aruba and Curacao off the coast of Venezuela, Sint Eustatius and Saba are located south of Sint Maarten and northeast of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

(Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)



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