ANTIGUA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Antigua mean? 

• ANTIGUA (noun)
  The noun ANTIGUA has 1 sense:

1. the largest of the islands comprising Antigua and Barbuda

  Familiarity information: ANTIGUA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTIGUA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest of the islands comprising Antigua and Barbuda

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (members of "Antigua"):

Antiguan (a native or inhabitant of Antigua)

Holonyms ("Antigua" is a part of...):

Antigua and Barbuda (a country in the northern Leeward Islands)

Derivation:

Antiguan (of or relating to or characteristic of Antigua or its people)

 Context examples 

Why, you know, Sir Thomas's means will be rather straitened if the Antigua estate is to make such poor returns.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He wrote in April, and had strong hopes of settling everything to his entire satisfaction, and leaving Antigua before the end of the summer.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The day at Sotherton, with all its imperfections, afforded the Miss Bertrams much more agreeable feelings than were derived from the letters from Antigua, which soon afterwards reached Mansfield.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He passed, however, for an admirer of her dancing; and Sir Thomas, by no means displeased, prolonged the conversation on dancing in general, and was so well engaged in describing the balls of Antigua, and listening to what his nephew could relate of the different modes of dancing which had fallen within his observation, that he had not heard his carriage announced, and was first called to the knowledge of it by the bustle of Mrs. Norris.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

His opinion of her had been sinking from the day of his return from Antigua: in every transaction together from that period, in their daily intercourse, in business, or in chat, she had been regularly losing ground in his esteem, and convincing him that either time had done her much disservice, or that he had considerably over-rated her sense, and wonderfully borne with her manners before.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

His business in Antigua had latterly been prosperously rapid, and he came directly from Liverpool, having had an opportunity of making his passage thither in a private vessel, instead of waiting for the packet; and all the little particulars of his proceedings and events, his arrivals and departures, were most promptly delivered, as he sat by Lady Bertram and looked with heartfelt satisfaction on the faces around him—interrupting himself more than once, however, to remark on his good fortune in finding them all at home—coming unexpectedly as he did—all collected together exactly as he could have wished, but dared not depend on.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She had found a seat, where in excessive trembling she was enduring all these fearful thoughts, while the other three, no longer under any restraint, were giving vent to their feelings of vexation, lamenting over such an unlooked-for premature arrival as a most untoward event, and without mercy wishing poor Sir Thomas had been twice as long on his passage, or were still in Antigua.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Sir Thomas found it expedient to go to Antigua himself, for the better arrangement of his affairs, and he took his eldest son with him, in the hope of detaching him from some bad connexions at home.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The earliest intelligence of the travellers' safe arrival at Antigua, after a favourable voyage, was received; though not before Mrs. Norris had been indulging in very dreadful fears, and trying to make Edmund participate them whenever she could get him alone; and as she depended on being the first person made acquainted with any fatal catastrophe, she had already arranged the manner of breaking it to all the others, when Sir Thomas's assurances of their both being alive and well made it necessary to lay by her agitation and affectionate preparatory speeches for a while.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)