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SOCIETY ISLANDS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Society Islands mean?
• SOCIETY ISLANDS (noun)
The noun SOCIETY ISLANDS has 1 sense:
1. an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa
Familiarity information: SOCIETY ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Society Islands"):
Tahiti (an island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin)
Holonyms ("Society Islands" is a part of...):
French Oceania; French Polynesia (a French overseas possession in the South Pacific)
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