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Thousand Islands

Thousand Islands proper noun: an archipelago of more than 1800 islands and islets on the upper Saint Lawrence River between Ontario, Canada, and New York State, USA, starting near its head at Lake Ontario and extending downriver.

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Proper noun

the Thousand Islands pl (plural only, attributive Thousand Island)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An archipelago of more than 1800 islands and islets on the upper Saint Lawrence River between Ontario, Canada, and New York State, USA, starting near its head at Lake Ontario and extending downriver.

Forms of Thousand Islands

attributiveThousand Island

Words formed from Thousand Islands

Questions about Thousand Islands

What does Thousand Islands mean?
Thousand Islands means an archipelago of more than 1800 islands and islets on the upper Saint Lawrence River between Ontario, Canada, and New York State, USA, starting near its head at Lake Ontario and extending downriver.
What part of speech is Thousand Islands?
Thousand Islands is a proper noun.

Words near Thousand Islands in the dictionary

  1. thousand
  2. thousand and one
  3. Thousand Island
  4. Thousand Island dressing
  5. Thousand Island dressings
  6. Thousand Islands
  7. thousand million
  8. Thousand Oaks
  9. thousand one
  10. Thousand Palms
  11. thousand pardons

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