Virgin Islands

[ vur-jin ahy-luhndz ]

plural noun

1. a group of islands in the West Indies, east of Puerto Rico: comprises the Virgin Islands of the United States and the British Virgin Islands. : VI (for use with zip code), V.I.

Virgin Islands

plural noun

1. a group of about 100 small islands (14 inhabited) in the Caribbean, east of Puerto Rico: discovered by Columbus (1493); consists of the British Virgin Islands in the east and the Virgin Islands of the United States in the west and south. Pop: 136 649 (2013 est). Area: 497 sq km (192 sq miles)

Virgin Islands

1. Islands in the Caribbean Sea , east of Puerto Rico , owned by the United States and Britain .

Notes

Christopher Columbus discovered the Virgin Islands in 1493.

Example Sentences

In 2019, Haché, his wife and two daughters set up a Wyoming trust and an unregulated private trust company to own two British Virgin Islands companies with bank accounts in Miami, the Pandora Papers records show.

From Washington Post

The British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Belize, and Switzerland.

From The Daily Beast

Besides Guam and the Northern Marianas, they are Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.

From The Daily Beast

And today, he is free to roam the 100 acres of Little St. John, his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

From The Daily Beast

As for what happened in the Virgin Islands, "I wouldn't do anything differently," she declares.

From The Daily Beast

I think they used the boat from the Virgin Islands all the way to Belize.

From The Daily Beast

The last part of the book is exclusively devoted to the most recent history of the Virgin Islands.

From Project Gutenberg

The first effort of the author is to give a short sketch of the history of the Virgin Islands.

From Project Gutenberg

He died too soon; he would have been a great help to us in the troubled days when we were trying to buy the Virgin Islands.

From Project Gutenberg

I found that we were in the latitude of the Virgin Islands, still a long way from Guadaloupe.

From Project Gutenberg

Ahead of them a low cloud showed on the horizon, which Cahusac pronounced one of the northernmost of the Virgin Islands.

From Project Gutenberg