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CARIBBEAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Region including the Caribbean Islands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Caribbean"):
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; St. Vincent and the Grenadines (an island country in the central Windward Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1979)
Saint Lucia; St. Lucia (a country on the island of Saint Lucia; gained independence from Great Britain in 1979)
Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Christopher-Nevis; Saint Kitts and Nevis; St. Christopher-Nevis; St. Kitts and Nevis (a country on several of the Leeward Islands; located to the east southeast of Puerto Rico; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1983)
Bahama Islands; Bahamas; Commonwealth of the Bahamas (island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort)
Commonwealth of Dominica; Dominica (a country on the island of Dominica)
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Trinidad and Tobago (an island republic in the West Indies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962)
Barbados (a parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados; former British colony; a popular resort area)
Jamaica (a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism)
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Porto Rico; PR; Puerto Rico (a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico)
Dominican Republic (a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola)
Haiti; Republic of Haiti (a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola; achieved independence from France in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere)
Cuba; Republic of Cuba (a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba)
the Indies; West Indies (the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area)
Antigua and Barbuda (a country in the northern Leeward Islands)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
Meronyms (parts of "Caribbean"):
Caribbean Island (an island in the Caribbean Sea)
Context examples:
In 2018, more than 20 million tons of it floated in surface waters and became a problem to shorelines lining the tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and east coast of Florida.
(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)
Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma is endemic in several regions of the world, in particular Japan, the Caribbean, and parts of Central Africa.
(adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
Island in the Caribbean Sea, north of Venezuela.
(Aruba, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, east of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
(Antigua and Barbuda, NCI Thesaurus)
Denotes a person of African ancestral origins whose family settled in the Caribbean region.
(African Caribbean, NCI Thesaurus)
Islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east-southeast of Puerto Rico.
(Antigua and Barbuda, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An island in the Caribbean Sea, north of Venezuela and west of Curacao.
(Aruba, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua.
(Honduras, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Honduras and Belize and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between El Salvador and Mexico.
(Guatemala, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A group of islands in the Caribbean, formerly an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands and now a constituent of the Kingdom.
(Netherlands Antilles, NCI Thesaurus)
