SOUTH PACIFIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does South Pacific mean? 

• SOUTH PACIFIC (noun)
  The noun SOUTH PACIFIC has 1 sense:

1. that part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator

  Familiarity information: SOUTH PACIFIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH PACIFIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

part; piece (a portion of a natural object)

Holonyms ("South Pacific" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

 Context examples 

An herb native to islands in the South Pacific.

(Intoxicating pepper, NCI Dictionary)

A country in the Pacific, comprised of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Australia.

(New Caledonia, NCI Thesaurus)

Big geographic changes across northern Zealandia, which is about the same size as India, have implications for understanding questions such as how plants and animals dispersed and evolved in the South Pacific.

(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)

The continent and country between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean, south of Asia.

(Australia, NCI Thesaurus)

An island group in the South Pacific Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand.

(Fiji, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, southwest of Wallis and Fortuna and east of Vanuatu.

(Fiji, NCI Thesaurus)

He would entertain there the factor of Taiohae, captains of wandering traders, and all the best of the South Pacific riffraff.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A country in western South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Chile and Ecuador.

(Peru, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in southeastern Asia, comprising a group of islands and including the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, between the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia.

(Papua New Guinea, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Australia, between Tonga and French Polynesia.

(Cook Islands, NCI Thesaurus)