Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tuvalu

2 senses of tuvalu

Sense 1
Tuvalu -- (a small island republic on the Tuvalu islands; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978)
       INSTANCE OF=> country, state, land -- (the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries")

Sense 2
Tuvalu, Ellice Islands -- (a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii)
       INSTANCE OF=> archipelago -- (a group of many islands in a large body of water)