WEST INDIES, The
WEST INDIES, The. An ambiguous traditional term used in its widest geographical sense to refer to the islands of the Greater and Lesser Antilles excluding the Bahamas, and more narrowly to cover ex-British possessions (excluding Guyana and Belize on the mainland). See CARIBBEAN ENGLISH.
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