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Definition of Solomon islands

1. Noun. The southern Solomon Islands that since 1978 form an independent state in the British Commonwealth.

2. Noun. The northernmost islands are part of Papua New Guinea; the remainder form an independent state within the British Commonwealth.

Definition of Solomon islands

1. Proper noun. A country in Melanesia. Official name: Solomon Islands. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Solomon Islands

Solidago odora Solidago rugosa Solidago sempervirens Solidago spathulata Solidarity Solingen Solo man Solomon Solomon's-seal Solomon's seal

Solomon Guggenheim Solomon Gundy Solomon Hurok Solomon Islander Solomon Islanders Solomon Islands Solomonic Solomons Solon Solong

Solothurn Solovian Solresol Sols Solvay Solvay process Solway Firth Solzhenitsyn Solzhenitsynian Somal

Literary usage of Solomon islands

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"EXPLORATION OF THE solomon islands. desired on behalf of the Society to acknowledge that it was through the courtesy and by the friendly intervention of His ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"solomon islands, Melanesia, a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, belonging to Great ... Consult Guppy, HB, 'The solomon islands' (1887); Woodford, ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1890)
"Further Explorations in the solomon islands. By CM WOODFORD. (Read at the Evening Meeting, February 24th, 1800.) Map, p. 441. NOT quite two years ago I had ..."

4. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"... and Moluccas to west, and including the solomon islands, New Hebrides, and New Caledonia to east. ic. Arctic: Greenland and the area north of the Arctic ..."

5. The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London (1911)
"solomon islands Canoe. Our Solomon sores increased and multiplied. And the cockroaches on board held a combined Fourth of July and Coronation Parade. ..."

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