nauru island

1. 1.

   a small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands

   SynonymsNauruPleasant Island

   Broaderisland

   Part ofMicronesia

   PartsNauru

Questions about nauru island

What does nauru island mean?

nauru island means "a small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands".

What is another word for nauru island?

Close synonyms include Nauru, Pleasant Island. 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 nauru island a common word?

nauru island 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.