SANDWICH ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sandwich Islands mean? 

• SANDWICH ISLANDS (noun)
  The noun SANDWICH ISLANDS has 1 sense:

1. a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANDWICH ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

H.I.; Hawaiian Islands; Sandwich Islands

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Sandwich Islands"):

Aloha State; Haw.; Hawai'i; Hawaii; HI (a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands)

Hawaii; Hawaii Island (the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks)

Kahoolawe; Kahoolawe Island (an island of south-central Hawaii)

Kauai; Kauai Island (an island of Hawaii to the northwest of Oahu)

Lanai; Lanai Island (an island of central Hawaii; a pineapple-growing area)

Maui; Maui Island (the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands)

Molokai; Molokai Island (an island of central Hawaii (between Maui and Oahu))

Nihau; Nihau Island (the most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai))

Oahu; Oahu Island (an island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai); the chief island of the state)

Midway Islands (an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 miles to the northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base)

Holonyms ("Sandwich Islands" is a part of...):

Polynesia (the islands in the eastern part of Oceania)

 Context examples 

Haughty English, lively French, sober Germans, handsome Spaniards, ugly Russians, meek Jews, free-and-easy Americans, all drive, sit, or saunter here, chatting over the news, and criticizing the latest celebrity who has arrived—Ristori or Dickens, Victor Emmanuel or the Queen of the Sandwich Islands.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)