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BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
More than 40 northeastern Virgin Islands (15 inhabited); a dependent territory of the United Kingdom
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
possession (a territory that is controlled by a ruling state)
Holonyms ("British Virgin Islands" is a part of...):
Virgin Islands (a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain)
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