English > West Indies: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | The string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area. |
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| Synonym | the Indies |
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| Category of | obeah, obi | (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery |
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| Instance of | archipelago | A group of many islands in a large body of water |
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| Members | Anguillan | A native or inhabitant of the island of Anguilla in the West Indies |
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| West Indian | A native or inhabitant of the West Indies |
| Part of | Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean | The 2nd largest ocean |
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| Caribbean | region including the Caribbean Islands |
| Parts | Anguilla | A British colony in the West Indies |
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| Antilles | A group of islands in the West Indies |
| Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Bahama Islands | island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba |
| Cayman Islands | A British colony in the Caribbean to the northwest of Jamaica |
| French West Indies | The islands in the Lesser Antilles that are administered by France |
| Montserrat | A volcanic island in the Caribbean |
| Tobago | island in West Indies |
| Trinidad | An island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela |
| Virgin Islands | A group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493 |
| Narrower | British West Indies | The islands in the West Indies that were formerly under British control, including the Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Antigua, Grenada, Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad |
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