West Indies

English

Etymology

From west +‎ Indies. From being lands called the Indies, of the West. From being mistaken for the East Indies (aka, the Indies).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

West Indies pl (plural only)

1. The islands of the Caribbean sea.
2. (cricket) A Federation of Caribbean states which, together with Guyana, play Test matches as if they were a single nation.

Meronyms

• Greater Antilles
• Lesser Antilles
• Lucayan Archipelago

Related terms

• West Indian
• East Indies

Translations

islands of the Caribbean sea

• Armenian: Վեստ Ինդիա (hy) (Vest India)
• Catalan: Índies Occidentals f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西印度群島／西印度群岛 (zh) (Xī Yìndù qúndǎo)

• Dutch: West-Indië n
• Finnish: Länsi-Intia (fi)
• French: Indes occidentales (fr) f pl, Caraïbes (fr) f pl
• Galician: Indias Occidentais f pl
• German: Westindien (de) n
• Hungarian: Karib-térség, (without The Bahamas) Antillák (hu), (rare) Nyugat-Indiák
• Icelandic: Vestur-Indíur f pl
• Irish: Na hIndiacha Thiar f pl
• Italian: Indie Occidentali f pl, Antille (it) f pl
• Japanese: 西インド諸島 (Nishi Indo shotō)
• Korean: 서인도 제도(西印度諸島) (seoindo jedo)
• Norwegian: Karibia
• Portuguese: Índias Ocidentais f pl
• Punjabi: ਵੈਸਟ ਇੰਡੀਜ਼ (vaisaṭ iṇḍīz)
• Russian: Вест-И́ндия (ru) f (Vest-Índija)
• Spanish: Indias Occidentales f pl
• Swedish: Västindien (sv) n
• Turkish: Batı Hint Adaları (tr)
• Vietnamese: Tây Ấn

cricket federation

See also

• Windies