THE INDIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does the Indies mean? 

• THE INDIES (noun)
  The noun THE INDIES has 1 sense:

1. the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area

  Familiarity information: THE INDIES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THE INDIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

the Indies; West Indies

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "the Indies"):

Anguilla (a British colony in the West Indies)

Cayman Islands (a British colony in the Caribbean to the northwest of Jamaica; an international banking center)

Montserrat (a volcanic island in the Caribbean; in the West Indies)

Antilles (a group of islands in the West Indies)

French West Indies (the islands in the Lesser Antilles that are administered by France)

Virgin Islands (a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain)

Trinidad (an island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela)

Tobago (island in West Indies)

Bahama Islands; Bahamas; Commonwealth of the Bahamas (island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort)

Meronyms (members of "the Indies"):

Anguillan (a native or inhabitant of the island of Anguilla in the West Indies)

West Indian (a native or inhabitant of the West Indies)

Domain member category:

obeah; obi ((West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "the Indies"):

British West Indies (the islands in the West Indies that were formerly under British control, including the Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Antigua, Grenada, Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad)

Holonyms ("the Indies" is a part of...):

Caribbean (region including the Caribbean Islands)

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

 Context examples 

Any gap at your fireside on such a night—such a gap least of all—I wouldn't make, for the wealth of the Indies!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So it was with the CASSANDRA, as brought us all safe home from Malabar, after England took the viceroy of the Indies; so it was with the old WALRUS, Flint's old ship, as I've seen amuck with the red blood and fit to sink with gold.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It's there she learned 'Pieces of eight,' and little wonder; three hundred and fifty thousand of 'em, Hawkins! She was at the boarding of the viceroy of the Indies out of Goa, she was; and to look at her you would think she was a babby. But you smelt powder—didn't you, cap'n?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)