West Indies

West Indies

English

Etymology

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.

Related terms

• West Indian
• East Indies

Translations

islands of the Caribbean sea

Armenian: Վեստ Ինդիա (hy) (Vest India) 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: Antilles (fr) f pl, 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, (rare) Nyugat-Indiák Icelandic: Vestur-Indíur f pl Irish: Na hIndiacha Thiar f pl Italian: Indie Occidentali f pl, Antille f pl Japanese: 西インド諸島 (Nishi Indo shotō) Norwegian: Karibia Portuguese: Índias Ocidentais f pl 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