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

2 senses of maldives

Sense 1
Maldives, Republic of Maldives -- (a republic on the Maldive Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1965)
       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
Maldives, Maldive Islands -- (a group of about 1,200 small coral islands (about 220 inhabited) in the Indian ocean)
       INSTANCE OF=> island -- (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)