BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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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