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THE 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 "the 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 "the 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 "the 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 ("the 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)
