ANTILLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Antilles mean? 

• ANTILLES (noun)
  The noun ANTILLES has 1 sense:

1. a group of islands in the West Indies

  Familiarity information: ANTILLES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTILLES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of islands in the West Indies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Antilles"):

Greater Antilles (a group of islands in the western West Indies)

Caribees; Lesser Antilles (a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies)

Holonyms ("Antilles" is a part of...):

the Indies; West Indies (the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area)

 Context examples 

Three Caribbean islands that are part of the Lesser Antilles; Bonaire is east of Aruba and Curacao off the coast of Venezuela, Sint Eustatius and Saba are located south of Sint Maarten and northeast of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

(Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)