Belize

American  

[buh-leez] / bəˈliz /

noun

1. Formerly British Honduras. a parliamentary democracy in northern Central America: a former British crown colony; gained independence 1981. 8,867 sq. mi. (22,966 sq. km). Belmopan.

2. Also called Belize City. a seaport in and the main city of Belize.

3. a river flowing northeast through Belize to the Gulf of Honduras. 180 miles (290 km) long.

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Belize British  

/ bəˈliːz /

noun

1. Former name (until 1973): British Honduras. a state in Central America, on the Caribbean Sea: site of a Mayan civilization until the 9th century _ad ; colonized by the British from 1638; granted internal self-government in 1964; became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1981. Official language: English; Carib and Spanish are also spoken. Currency: Belize dollar. Capital: Belmopan. Pop: 334 297 (2013 est). Area: 22 965 sq km (8867 sq miles)

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Other Word Forms

• Belizean
  adjective

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Belize

DiCaprio took his passion for environmentalism into the real estate world when he purchased Blackadore Caye, a 104-acre island off the coast of Belize, in 2005.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

Kamal describes his background as a mix of Trinidad, Belize, English and Palestinian and his childhood was filled with music.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

After Iraq, he kept volunteering in disaster zones and conflict zones—Haiti, Belize, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, the Syrian border, the West Bank.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

To say that our picture of the Mayan civilization—an interlocking network of kingdoms occupying the Yucatán Peninsula and swaths of present-day Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador from roughly 1000 B.C. to A.D.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

The Bahamas, Belize, and the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon sold them millions of gallons of liquor.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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