GREATER ANTILLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Greater Antilles mean? 

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

1. a group of islands in the western West Indies

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREATER ANTILLES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of islands in the western 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 "Greater Antilles"):

Cuba (the largest island in the West Indies)

Haiti; Hayti; Hispaniola (an island in the West Indies)

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Porto Rico; PR; Puerto Rico (a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico)

Jamaica (an island in the West Indies to the south of Cuba and to the west of Haiti)

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

Antilles (a group of islands in the West Indies)