CARIBBEAN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Region including the Caribbean Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Caribbean"):

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; St. Vincent and the Grenadines (an island country in the central Windward Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1979)

Saint Lucia; St. Lucia (a country on the island of Saint Lucia; gained independence from Great Britain in 1979)

Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Christopher-Nevis; Saint Kitts and Nevis; St. Christopher-Nevis; St. Kitts and Nevis (a country on several of the Leeward Islands; located to the east southeast of Puerto Rico; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1983)

Bahama Islands; Bahamas; Commonwealth of the Bahamas (island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort)

Commonwealth of Dominica; Dominica (a country on the island of Dominica)

Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Trinidad and Tobago (an island republic in the West Indies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962)

Barbados (a parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados; former British colony; a popular resort area)

Jamaica (a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism)

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Porto Rico; PR; Puerto Rico (a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico)

Dominican Republic (a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola)

Haiti; Republic of Haiti (a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola; achieved independence from France in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere)

Cuba; Republic of Cuba (a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba)

the Indies; West Indies (the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

An arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream

Synonyms:

Caribbean; Caribbean Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Meronyms (parts of "Caribbean"):

Caribbean Island (an island in the Caribbean Sea)

Credits

Context examples:

In 2018, more than 20 million tons of it floated in surface waters and became a problem to shorelines lining the tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and east coast of Florida.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma is endemic in several regions of the world, in particular Japan, the Caribbean, and parts of Central Africa.

(adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Island in the Caribbean Sea, north of Venezuela.

(Aruba, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, east of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

(Antigua and Barbuda, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person of African ancestral origins whose family settled in the Caribbean region.

(African Caribbean, NCI Thesaurus)

Islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east-southeast of Puerto Rico.

(Antigua and Barbuda, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An island in the Caribbean Sea, north of Venezuela and west of Curacao.

(Aruba, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua.

(Honduras, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Honduras and Belize and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between El Salvador and Mexico.

(Guatemala, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A group of islands in the Caribbean, formerly an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands and now a constituent of the Kingdom.