gilbert and ellice islands

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   a former British possession in Micronesia

   Broaderpossession

   Part ofMicronesia

Questions about gilbert and ellice islands

What does gilbert and ellice islands mean?

gilbert and ellice islands means "a former British possession in Micronesia".

Is gilbert and ellice islands a common word?

gilbert and ellice islands is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.