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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 Indiesplay

  Familiarity information: LEEWARD ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LEEWARD ISLANDS (noun)


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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