WEST INDIAN

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• WEST INDIAN (noun)
  The noun WEST INDIAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of the West Indies

  Familiarity information: WEST INDIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• WEST INDIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of the West Indies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("West Indian" is a kind of...):

American (a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country)

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

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

Antiguan (a native or inhabitant of Antigua)

Bahamian (a native or inhabitant of the Bahamas)

Barbadian (a native or inhabitant of Barbados)

Cuban (a native or inhabitant of Cuba)

Haitian (a native or inhabitant of Haiti)

Jamaican (a native or inhabitant of Jamaica)

Montserratian (a native or inhabitant of Montserrat)

Grenadian (a native or inhabitant of Grenada)

Dominican (a native or inhabitant of the Dominican Republic)

Tobagonian (a native or inhabitant of the island of Tobago in the West Indies)

Holonyms ("West Indian" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

The essential oil from the leaves of the West Indian bay tree.

(Bay Oil (Pimenta Racemosa), NCI Thesaurus)

Was there any chance of his being hereafter useful to Sir Thomas in the concerns of his West Indian property?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"Look at his wings," said he, "he reminds me rather of a West Indian insect; one does not often see so large and gay a night-rover in England; there! he is flown."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The general hope was that the West Indian expedition since the peace might have given many of their fleet an ocean training, and that they might be tempted out into mid-Channel if the war were to break out afresh.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Under that, the miscellany began—a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

One night I had been awakened by her yells—(since the medical men had pronounced her mad, she had, of course, been shut up)—it was a fiery West Indian night; one of the description that frequently precede the hurricanes of those climates.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)