tuvalu   (TTS Sound)

The noun tuvalu has 2 senses

• Tuvalu -- (a small island republic on the Tuvalu islands; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978)


• Tuvalu, Ellice Islands -- (a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii)