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LEEWARD ISLANDS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Leeward Islands mean?
• LEEWARD ISLANDS (noun)
The noun LEEWARD ISLANDS has 1 sense:
1. a group of islands in the eastern West Indies
Familiarity information: LEEWARD ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of islands in the eastern 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 "Leeward Islands"):
Antigua and Barbuda (a country in the northern Leeward Islands)
Saint Maarten; Saint Martin; St. Maarten; St. Martin (an island in the western Leeward Islands; administered jointly by France and the Netherlands)
Guadeloupe (an island territory of France located in the eastern West Indies; tourism is the major industry)
Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Christopher-Nevis; Saint Kitts and Nevis; St. Christopher-Nevis; St. Kitts and Nevis (a country on several of the Leeward Islands; located to the east southeast of Puerto Rico; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1983)
Holonyms ("Leeward Islands" is a part of...):
Caribees; Lesser Antilles (a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies)
Context examples
I had several men who died in my ship of calentures, so that I was forced to get recruits out of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, where I touched, by the direction of the merchants who employed me; which I had soon too much cause to repent: for I found afterwards, that most of them had been buccaneers.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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