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maldives

UK/ˈmɒl.diːvz/US/ˈmɔl.divz/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

The Maldives is an Indian Ocean nation of coral atolls barely above the waves. Fly to the Maldives.

It is the lowest country on earth, averaging about a metre and a half above the sea. The Maldives held a cabinet meeting underwater in 2009 to make the point.

See File history, below, for details. · Public domain

Definitions of maldives

  1. 1nounmaldivesIndian Ocean nation of coral atolls barely above the waves.B2

    “The Maldives is spread over hundreds of small islands.”

maldives is a country.

Also accepted in games: the Maldives

Where it comes from

  1. Sanskrit

    द्वीप

  2. pra

    𑀤𑀻𑀯 — island

  3. dv

    މާލެ

  4. English

    Maldives

  5. English, today

    maldives

Maldives Based on Malé Islands; from Malé, the name of the main island (from dv މާލެ) + pra 𑀤𑀻𑀯 (“island”), from Sanskrit द्वीप.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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