LEEWARD ISLANDS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A group of islands in the eastern West Indies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Leeward Islands"):

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

Saint Maarten; Saint Martin; St. Maarten; St. Martin (an island in the western Leeward Islands; administered jointly by France and the Netherlands)

Guadeloupe (an island territory of France located in the eastern West Indies; tourism is the major industry)

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)

Holonyms ("Leeward Islands" is a part of...):

Caribees; Lesser Antilles (a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies)