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WEST INDIES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area
Synonyms:
the Indies; West Indies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "West Indies"):
Anguilla (a British colony in the West Indies)
Cayman Islands (a British colony in the Caribbean to the northwest of Jamaica; an international banking center)
Montserrat (a volcanic island in the Caribbean; in the West Indies)
Antilles (a group of islands in the West Indies)
French West Indies (the islands in the Lesser Antilles that are administered by France)
Virgin Islands (a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain)
Trinidad (an island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela)
Tobago (island in West Indies)
Bahama Islands; Bahamas; Commonwealth of the Bahamas (island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort)
Meronyms (members of "West Indies"):
Anguillan (a native or inhabitant of the island of Anguilla in the West Indies)
West Indian (a native or inhabitant of the West Indies)
Domain member category:
obeah; obi ((West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "West Indies"):
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)
Holonyms ("West Indies" is a part of...):
Caribbean (region including the Caribbean Islands)
Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)
Context examples:
Mason!—the West Indies! he said, in the tone one might fancy a speaking automaton to enounce its single words; Mason!—the West Indies! he reiterated; and he went over the syllables three times, growing, in the intervals of speaking, whiter than ashes: he hardly seemed to know what he was doing.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She had good reason to believe that some property of her husband in the West Indies, which had been for many years under a sort of sequestration for the payment of its own incumbrances, might be recoverable by proper measures; and this property, though not large, would be enough to make her comparatively rich.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She was their earliest visitor in their settled life; and Captain Wentworth, by putting her in the way of recovering her husband's property in the West Indies, by writing for her, acting for her, and seeing her through all the petty difficulties of the case with the activity and exertion of a fearless man and a determined friend, fully requited the services which she had rendered, or ever meant to render, to his wife.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers and a yachting cap. And when the Tuolomee left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby left too.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
