ladrone islands

Questions about ladrone islands

What does ladrone islands mean?

ladrone islands means "a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521".

What is another word for ladrone islands?

Close synonyms include Mariana Islands, Marianas. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ladrone islands a common word?

ladrone 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.