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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 volcano
Familiarity information: SABA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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