sandwich islands

Questions about sandwich islands

What does sandwich islands mean?

sandwich islands means "a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific".

What is another word for sandwich islands?

Close synonyms include Hawaiian Islands, H.I.. 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 sandwich islands a common word?

sandwich 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.