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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • The largest island of the Abaco and Cays group in the northern Bahamas.

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Examples

  • Assistant Superintendent Hulan Hanna said police believed the fugitive was still on Great Abaco.

    'Barefoot Bandit' To Blame For Bahamas Burglaries, Say Police 2010

  • Miller said Harris-Moore is a suspect in the burglary of at least seven homes and businesses on Great Abaco, the largest of dozens of small islands and cays that are a part of the sprawling Bahamas archipelago east of Florida.

    'Barefoot Bandit' To Blame For Bahamas Burglaries, Say Police 2010

  • Phil Sandlin/Associated Press Houses were surrounded by water in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco in the Bahamas on Sept. 15, 1999, after Hurricane Floyd passed over with estimated 110 mph winds.

    Looking Back: Hurricane Floyd, Ten Years Ago 2009

  • And the eye now just heading over Great Abaco and will eventually head over to Grand Bahama as well.

    CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2004 2004

  • The main islands and groups, beginning from the north-west, are as follows: Little and Great Abaco, with Great

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • Chantor had told him that he intended to stand off and to the eastward of Great Abaco, and he had been cherishing a hope that he would fall in with the Snapper, though he might not find evidence enough on board of her to warrant her capture.

    Fighting for the Right Oliver Optic 1859

  • Assistant Police Commissioner Glenn Miller said Harris-Moore is a suspect in the burglary of at least seven homes and businesses on Great Abaco, the largest of dozens of small islands and cays that are a part of the sprawling Bahamas archipelago east of Florida.

    TheIndyChannel.com - Local News 2010

  • Service station owner Dwight Pinder said his shop on the southern tip of Great Abaco was burglarized Sunday night, shortly after the plane crash in a nearby marsh.

    WISTV - Local News RSS 2010

  • Miller said Harris-Moore is a suspect in the burglary of at least seven homes and businesses on Great Abaco, the largest of dozens of small islands and cays that are a part of the sprawling Bahamas archipelago east of Florida.

    KOMO News - News 2010

  • Assistant Police Commissioner Glenn Miller said Harris-Moore is a suspect in the burglary of at least seven homes and businesses on Great Abaco, the largest of dozens of small islands and cays that are a part of the sprawling Bahamas archipelago east of Florida.

    WISTV - Local News RSS 2010

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