Grande-Terre

[grahnd-ter]

noun

1. Guadeloupe

Grande-Terre

/ ɡrɑ̃dtɛr /

noun

1. a French island in the Caribbean, in the Lesser Antilles: one of the two main islands which constitute Guadeloupe. Chief town: Pointe-à-Pitre

Example Sentences

Similar scenes of devastation on Mayotte's other main island Grande-Terre greeted French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday morning as he arrived with four tonnes of food and health aid.

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The easternmost point of Grande-Terre, with a dramatic landscape and huge, crashing waves.

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We stayed in Gosier on Basse-Terre last year and just outside of St. Francois on Grande-Terre last month.

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Correction: our stay on Basse-Terre was in Deshaies, Le Gosier is on Grande-Terre.

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We spent an idyllic week on Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe’s eastern island, which is flat, dry and ringed with golden beaches, as compared with Basse-Terre, which is mountainous and dense with rain forests.

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