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CHANNEL ISLAND

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Channel Island"):

island of Jersey; Jersey (the largest of the Channel Islands)

Guernsey; island of Guernsey (a Channel Island to the northwest of Jersey)

Holonyms ("Channel Island" is a part of...):

British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic)

English Channel (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain)

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