TRINIDAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trinidad mean? 

• TRINIDAD (noun)
  The noun TRINIDAD has 1 sense:

1. an island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela

  Familiarity information: TRINIDAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRINIDAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "Trinidad"):

capital of Trinidad and Tobago; Port-of-Spain; Port of Spain (the capital and largest city of Trinidad and Tobago on the west coast of the island of Trinidad)

Holonyms ("Trinidad" is a part of...):

the Indies; West Indies (the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area)

Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Trinidad and Tobago (an island republic in the West Indies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962)

Derivation:

Trinidadian (of or relating to the island of Trinidad)

 Context examples 

I've seen his top-sails with these eyes, off Trinidad, and the cowardly son of a rum-puncheon that I sailed with put back—put back, sir, into Port of Spain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

An island between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Grenada, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An island between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and north of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Grenada, NCI Thesaurus)

An island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and Tobago.

(Dominica, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

With this, the Bhut Jolokia loses its status as the world's hottest chilli, left behind by, reportedly, Carolina Reaper of the US and the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Scientists claim decrease in hotness of Bhut Jolokia, Wikinews)