Antilles
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Other Word Forms
- Antillean adjective
Example Sentences
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But in 2010, the Dutch dissolved the six-island territory known as the Netherlands Antilles, making Curacao a constituent nation within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
Curacao, 37 miles off the Venezuela coast, only became a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 2010, following the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
More than half of the participants were from the Netherlands, with 10 percent hailing from Suriname or the Dutch Antilles and the rest identifying from nations as diverse as Turkey, Morocco and other "non-Western countries."
From Salon • Jun. 18, 2024
There currently are two subduction zones in the Atlantic: the Lesser Antilles and Scotia.
From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024
For a while, they eats and I eat and we are all genial; them asking me questions and me telling them stories as to how I’m a honest Dutchman new come from the Antilles.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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