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GILBERT ISLANDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Domain member region:
Makin; Tarawa; Tarawa-Makin (battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting)
Holonyms ("Gilbert Islands" is a part of...):
Kiribati; Republic of Kiribati (an island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator)
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