LESSER ANTILLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lesser Antilles mean? 

• LESSER ANTILLES (noun)
  The noun LESSER ANTILLES has 1 sense:

1. a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies

  Familiarity information: LESSER ANTILLES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LESSER ANTILLES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of islands in the southeastern West Indies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Caribees; Lesser Antilles

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Lesser Antilles"):

Netherlands Antilles (a group of islands in the Lesser Antilles just to the north of Venezuela that are administered by The Netherlands)

Leeward Islands (a group of islands in the eastern West Indies)

Windward Islands; Windward Isles (a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the southern part of the Lesser Antilles)

Barbados (easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north of Venezuela)

Holonyms ("Lesser Antilles" is a part of...):

Antilles (a group of islands in the West Indies)

 Context examples 

Three Caribbean islands that are part of the Lesser Antilles; Bonaire is east of Aruba and Curacao off the coast of Venezuela, Sint Eustatius and Saba are located south of Sint Maarten and northeast of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

(Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)