Marshall Islands

Islands named after John Marshall.

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaːʃəl ˈaɪləndz/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.ʃəl ˈaɪ.ləndz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.ʃəl ˈaɪ.ləndz/

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the Marshall Islands

2. A country consisting of two archipelagos in Micronesia, in Oceania. Official name: Republic of the Marshall Islands. Capital and largest city: Majuro.
   • 2023, Samantha Harvey, Orbital, Jonathan Cape, page 23:

     There, in that emptiness, the typhoon is organising. For the last twenty-four hours it’s been shifting west, by now past the Marshall Islands, that fragile tracery of sinking lands so piecemeal and storm-worn.

• Marshallese

• → Japanese: マーシャル諸島 (Māsharu shotō) (calque)

• (countries of Oceania) country of Oceania; Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
• Countries of the world
• Marshall Islands on Wikipedia.Wikipedia