Used in a Sentence

antilles

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for antilles.

Editorial note

There are other reasons to house things in Switzerland (or the Lesser Antilles or wherever).

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The islands of the West Indies, bounded to the north by (and including) the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean Sea.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of antilles gathered in one view.

noun

The islands of the West Indies, bounded to the north by (and including) the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean Sea.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for antilles.

noun

The islands of the West Indies, bounded to the north by (and including) the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean Sea.

Example sentences

1

There are other reasons to house things in Switzerland (or the Lesser Antilles or wherever).

2

I bypassed the Lesser Antilles rather than ensure I was in international airspace trying to go between them.

3

So I was wrong in naming Switzerland - should've mentioned the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the Netherlands Antilles and Curaçao instead.

4

When the Netherlands Antilles was disolved in 2010, the.an TLD was phased out.

5

AN top-level domain for the Netherlands Antilles is no longer eligible for continued delegation, as it is no longer an ISO 3166-1 two-letter code.

6

How underappreciated can these Antilles get anyway?

7

Only if you're in Puerto Rico can you access a large number of countries in a short distance, and that's mostly because almost every Antilles island is a different independent country.

8

I did my MS and PhD in geology/geophysics and did a good amount of fieldwork, including 8 international field campaigns in places like the Lesser Antilles and Tibet.

9

In the case of the Dutch sandwich I think the Netherlands has a treaty with the Netherlands Antilles or something so people have a company in the Netherlands which then shifts things off-shore to the Antilles and avoids tax that way.

10

If you're going to list Cuba and the Dominican Republic, you shouldn't leave out Jamaica and all the Lesser Antilles - I highly recommend visits to any of them!

11

Secondly EU citizen can travel all over Europe (except Russia), in some Northern African countries and in many of the lands once a colony, such as French Antilles (or French West Indies), without a passport.

12

Most of those earthquakes outline the Puerto Rico Trench -- a southward-dipping subduction zone at the edge of the Caribbean Plate (that wraps around to connect with both the strike-slip plate boundary to the west and the weastward-dipping Lesser Antilles subduction zone to the southeast).

Quote examples

1

Best dijon I have found is called "Maille L'Originale." Got it first in the French Antilles but then found it widely distributed in the US.

2

Here is an excerpt from Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World [1] > American corporations could cook up a version of what was known as a “Dutch Sandwich” —set up an offshore finance subsidiary in the Netherlands Antilles, then use it to issue tax-free Eurobonds and send the proceeds up to the American parent.

Proper noun examples

1

Maybe his problem is with those yucky distributed systems as in Kube, Antilles, etc.

2

One of the more successful countries in the Antilles.

3

Dutch pre-euro bills (Antilles included) are where it's at.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use antilles in a sentence?

There are other reasons to house things in Switzerland (or the Lesser Antilles or wherever).

What does antilles mean?

The islands of the West Indies, bounded to the north by (and including) the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean Sea.

What part of speech is antilles?

antilles is commonly used as noun.