SOLOMON ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Solomon Islands mean? 

• SOLOMON ISLANDS (noun)
  The noun SOLOMON ISLANDS has 2 senses:

1. the southern Solomon Islands that since 1978 form an independent state in the British Commonwealth

2. the northernmost islands are part of Papua New Guinea; the remainder form an independent state within the British Commonwealth

  Familiarity information: SOLOMON ISLANDS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLOMON ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The southern Solomon Islands that since 1978 form an independent state in the British Commonwealth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Solomon Islands"):

Bougainville (the largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea)

Honiara (national capital of Solomon Islands)

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

Solomon Islands; Solomons (the northernmost islands are part of Papua New Guinea; the remainder form an independent state within the British Commonwealth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The northernmost islands are part of Papua New Guinea; the remainder form an independent state within the British Commonwealth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Solomon Islands; Solomons

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Solomon Islands"):

Guadalcanal (a mountainous island; the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth)

Solomon Islands (the southern Solomon Islands that since 1978 form an independent state in the British Commonwealth)

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

Melanesia (the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania)

 Context examples 

An island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia, west of the Marshall Islands and north of the Solomon Islands.

(Micronesia, Federated States of, NCI Thesaurus)

His store of money exhausted, he had shipped before the mast on the treasure-hunting schooner; and the Solomon Islands, after eight months of failure to find treasure, had witnessed the breaking up of the expedition.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)