Antilles

[ an-til-eez ]

plural noun

1. a chain of islands in the West Indies, divided into two parts, the one including Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico Greater Antilles, the other including a large arch of smaller islands to the SE and S Lesser Antilles, or Caribees.

Antilles

/ ænˈtɪliːz /

plural noun

1. See Lesser Antilles, Greater Antilles
   the Antilles
   the Antilles a group of islands in the Caribbean See also Greater Antilles Lesser Antilles

Other Words From

• An·til·le·an [an-, til, -ee-, uh, n, an-tl-, ee, -], adjective noun

Example Sentences

Olivier Gros first discovered the new bacteria in a mangrove swamp in the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles.

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Having thus discovered El Almirante’s next port, Downes spent every idle hour calculating the best way to get to the Antilles, moving to a position that hopefully anticipated the correct course.

From Time

The tail of both is flat, in which, as well as in many other characteristics, they differ from the pilori of the Antilles.

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Figure 34, from the Antilles, is in the Christy Collection; both of these have a human face engraved upon them.

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On the horizon there appeared through a burning vapor the high land of the other Antilles.

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They say that the filibuster formerly pursued his calling on the north of the Antilles and the seas of the south.

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Dynastes Hercules, a great insect of a fine ebony black, with its elytra of an olive grey, is not rare in the Antilles.

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