HyperDic: gilbert_islands

English > 1 sense of the expression Gilbert Islands:
NOUNlocationGilbert Islandsa group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii
English > Gilbert Islands: 1 sense > noun 1, location
MeaningA 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.
Instance ofarchipelagoA group of many islands in a large body of water
Part ofKiribati, Republic of KiribatiAn island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator
Region ofTarawa, Makin, Tarawa-Makinbattles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943)
SpanishGilbert
CatalanGilbert

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