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  1. n. A former name for the British colonies in around the Caribbean.

WordNet 3.0

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

Examples

  • “Canada received as many as forty-six thousand, including several thousand Indians and blacks, the British Isles about ten thousand, the British West Indies four thousand, the Bahamas two thousand, and so on; a few settled in Central America present-day Honduras and Belize; and some loyalists of German extraction returned to the Rhine Valley.”

    Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

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  1. the indies
  1. West Indies

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. entry-has
  2. long-term-unemployment
  3. British Empire
  4. Anguilla
  5. labba
  6. Ander's
  7. obsnuit
  8. hardback
  1. field-trash
  2. half-bit
  3. marabunta
  4. stylephoridæ
  5. water-dipper
  6. bit
  7. black-dog
  8. chocho
  1. Coco
  2. coffee-bird
  3. Fratello
  4. crapshooting
  5. BWI
  6. Turks and Caicos Islands
  7. Trinidad and Tobago
  8. Tobago
  1. Tortola
  2. Road Town
  3. Montserrat
  4. Leeward Islands
  5. Barbados
  6. Castries
  7. Grenada
  8. Bridgetown
  1. British West Indies
  2. attorney
  3. candlewood
  4. galley-wasp
  5. jack-spaniard
  6. loggerhead
  7. macauco
  8. razor-grinder

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