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

Derived terms

• Spanish West Indies

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 (ja) (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 Sundanese: Hindia Kulon Swedish: Västindien (sv) n Turkish: Batı Hint Adaları (tr) Vietnamese: Tây Ấn Welsh: yr India Orllewinol f

cricket federation

See also

• Windies