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Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Antilles, West Indies Antilia, Antillas A term applied to the whole of the West Indies except for the Bahamas. The Antilles are divided into the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. The name was coined before Christopher Columbus^† arrived in the area, possibly by the Florentine (Italian) cosmographer Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli who corresponded with Columbus before his great voyage, suggesting that the shortest route to Asia was to the west and a stop could be made en route at the island of Antilia. It is possible that the word is derived from the Latin ante ‘before’, and illas ‘islands’ to suggest islands off the mainland. In 1502 the full name of the islands was given as Las Antillas de Rey de Castella ‘The Antilles of the King of Castile’.

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Antilles

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Antilles Collective name for the two major island groups in the West Indies archipelago, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching in an arc from Puerto Rico to the n coast of Venezuela. The Greater Antilles (larger of the two groups) includes Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Cayman Islands. The Lesser Antilles comprises the British Virgin Islands, the US Virgin Islands, the Leeward Islands, and Windward Islands, plus small islands off Venezeula. See West Indies map

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Antilles

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Antilles see West Indies .

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Antilles

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Antilles •Andes •Hades, Mercedes •Archimedes • Thucydides • aphides •Eumenides, Parmenides •Maimonides, Simonides •Euripides • cantharides • Hesperides •Hebrides •Aristides, bona fides •Culdees •Alcibiades, Hyades, Pleiades •Cyclades • antipodes • Sporades •Ganges • Apelles •tales, Thales •Achilles, Antilles •Los Angeles • Ramillies • Pericles •isosceles • Praxiteles • Hercules •Empedocles • Sophocles • Damocles •Androcles • Heracles • Themistocles •Hermes • Menes • testudines •Diogenes • Cleisthenes •Demosthenes •Aristophanes, Xenophanes •manganese • Holofernes • editiones principes • herpes •lares, primus inter pares •Antares, Ares, Aries, caries •antifreeze • Ceres • Buenos Aires

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