gilbert islands

1. 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

   Broaderarchipelago

   Part ofKiribati

Questions about gilbert islands

What does gilbert islands mean?

gilbert islands means "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".

Is gilbert islands a common word?

gilbert 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.