Basse-Terre

American  

[bahs-tair, bahs-ter] / bɑsˈtɛər, bɑsˈtɛr /

noun

1. a seaport in and the capital of Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies.

2. Guadeloupe

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Basse-Terre British  

/ ˈbæsˈtɛə, bɑstɛr /

noun

1. a mountainous island in the Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands, comprising part of Guadeloupe. Area: 848 sq km (327 sq miles)

2. a port in W Guadeloupe, on Basse-Terre Island: the capital of the French Overseas Department of Guadeloupe. Pop: 12 410 (1999)

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Example Sentences

A man was found dead on Saturday after his house was swept away by floods in the Basse-Terre district on Friday night, local authorities said on Saturday.

From Reuters

What we know is that Boulogne, the illegitimate son of a wealthy French plantation owner and an enslaved African-Guadeloupean woman, was born between 1739 and ’49 on the island of Basse-Terre, the western half of the archipelago of Guadeloupe.

From New York Times

The two biggest are connected by a land bridge and form the shape of a butterfly: Grand-Terre, the flat island with white, sandy beaches, is the right wing; Basse-Terre, the mountainous, volcanic, rain forest island, is the left.

From Washington Post

Basse-Terre’s main roads hug the coastline and the sides of steep hills — no guardrails! — and we would regularly pull over to let others, going faster than the posted 70 kph around hairpin curves, pass by.

From Washington Post

So we drove southeast across the butterfly’s wings to a city called Sainte-Anne, leaving behind the solitude of Basse-Terre for an Airbnb on the edge of town, within walking distance of beaches brimming with French tourists and numerous restaurants.

From Washington Post