gilbert islands
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1. 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 (noun.location)
| instance hypernym | : | archipelago, |
| definition | : | a group of many islands in a large body of water (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | kiribati, republic of kiribati, |
| definition | : | an island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator (noun.location) |
| domain member region | : | makin, tarawa, tarawa-makin, |
| definition | : | battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting (noun.act) |
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