| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Wallis and Futuna Islands |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Wal·lis and Fu·tu·na Islands |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  w l  s; f -tn |
| A French overseas territory consisting of two groups of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean west of Samoa and northeast of Fiji. Controlled by the French from 1842, the islands became an overseas territory in 1961.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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