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CHANNEL ISLAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Channel Island"):
island of Jersey; Jersey (the largest of the Channel Islands)
Guernsey; island of Guernsey (a Channel Island to the northwest of Jersey)
Holonyms ("Channel Island" is a part of...):
British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic)
English Channel (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain)