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PRONUNCIATION OF GREATER ANTILLES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GREATER ANTILLES

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Greater Antilles is a noun.
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WHAT DOES GREATER ANTILLES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Greater Antilles

The Greater Antilles are one of the island groups in the Caribbean Sea. Comprising the islands of Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica, the Greater Antilles constitute over 94% of the land mass of the entire West Indies, as well as over 90% of its population. The other island group in the archipelago is the Lesser Antilles, a chain of islands to the east and south. The word Antilles originated in the period before the European conquest of the New World - Europeans used the term Antilia as one of the mysterious lands featured on medieval charts, sometimes as an archipelago, sometimes as continuous land of greater or lesser extent, its location fluctuating in mid-ocean between the Canary Islands and India.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GREATER ANTILLES

Greater
greater celandine
greater forkbeard
greater koodoo
greater kudu
Greater London
Greater London Authority
Greater Manchester
greater periwinkle
greater pichiciego
greater sand eel
greater scaup
greater spearwort
greater spotted dogfish
greater spotted woodpecker
Greater Sunda Islands

WORDS THAT END LIKE GREATER ANTILLES

Achilles
Antilles
Bruxelles
dalles
Dulles
fiancailles
Helles
Lesser Antilles
marseilles
Netherlands Antilles
Pelles
Roncesvalles
Seychelles
the Antilles
the Greater Antilles
the Lesser Antilles
the Netherlands Antilles
Treaty of Versailles
Versailles
Welles

Synonyms and antonyms of Greater Antilles in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Greater Antilles» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GREATER ANTILLES

Find out the translation of Greater Antilles to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Greater Antilles from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Greater Antilles» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

大安的列斯群岛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Antillas Mayores
570 millions of speakers

English

Greater Antilles
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ग्रेटर एंटीलिज
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جزر الأنتيل الكبرى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Большие Антильские острова
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

grandes Antilhas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বৃহত্তর এন্টিলস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Grandes Antilles
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antilles yang lebih besar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Großen Antillen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

大アンティル諸島
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

광역 앤 틸리 스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Antillen Walanda
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Greater Antilles
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிரேட்டர் அண்டில்லஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ग्रेटर अँटिल्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Büyük Antiller
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Grandi Antille
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Wielkie Antyle
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

великі Антильські острови
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Antilele Mari
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Μεγάλες Αντίλλες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Groot Antille
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Stora Antillerna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

store Antillene
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Greater Antilles

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GREATER ANTILLES»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Greater Antilles

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREATER ANTILLES»

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Caribbean: The Greater Antilles, Bermuda, Bahamas
Fully colour-illustrated travel guides packed with information on the history and culture of a destination.
Steve Cohen, Laurie Werner, Ute Vladimir, 1997
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The Genus Mikania (Compositae Eupatorieae) in the Greater ...
The Mikania of the Greater Antilles are characterized by a high endemism. Table 1 shows the percent endemism of all species of vascular plants (Liogier 1982) and the number of Mikania species present on each of the islands. There are five  ...
Walter C. Holmes, 1993
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Paleogeography and Geological History of Greater Antilles
Paleogeography of Greater Antilles during Early and Middle Jurassic, according to Meyerhoff . ... Major unconformities, tectonic cycles, and tectonic subcycles of Greater Antilles ........... .. 57 15. Schematic, interpretative south-north structural ...
K. M. Khudole?, Arthur Augustus Meyerhoff, 1971
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Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles
Annotation This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migration patterns of the aboriginal peoples of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), the Lucayan Islands (the Bahamas and the Turks and ...
Julian Granberry, Gary Vescelius, 2004
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Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives, ...
The cladistic analysis and systematic revision presented above bear on two major biogeographical issues relevant to sloths and other Antillean land mammals: the origin and initial colonization of terrestrial environments in the Greater Antilles, ...
Charles A. Woods, Florence E. Sergile, 2001
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Island Bats: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation
Frequency of occurrence of bat species on islands in the Bahamas (A), Greater Antilles (B), and Lesser Antilles (C). Frequent constituents of island assemblages are those whose occurrence exceeds the average frequency of occurrence (f ...
Theodore H. Fleming, Paul A. Racey, 2010
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The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492-1992: A Regional ...
Domination of the Greater Antilles The United States' effort in building the Panama Canal was, naturally enough, accompanied by a regional military presence intended to secure the Isthmus and the sea lanes leading to it. So Theodore ...
Bonham C. Richardson, 1992
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Atlas of United States Trees: Florida
From Bahamas through Greater Antilles to P.R. Also s. Mex., Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador. 198. Eugenia axillaris (Sw.) Willd., white stopper. C. and s. Fla. incl. Fla. Keys. Bermuda and from Bahamas through West Indies incl. P.R. and ...
Elbert Luther Little, 1978
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The Primate Fossil Record
The known exceptions are limited to two geographical areas, both of which have yielded extinct platyrrhines of late Quaternary age: the Greater Antilles and south- central Brazil. From the standpoint of extinction studies it makes sense to ...
Walter Carl Hartwig, 2002
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Zoogeography in the Caribbean: the 1975 Leidy Medal ...
species that probably used the northern or western route are widely distributed in the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. However, only one species (Tadarida brasiliensis) has an extensive distribution in the Lesser Antilles. Of the species that ...
Frank B. Gill, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GREATER ANTILLES»

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Saturday night Tropics check (07/11/2015)
... the next five days. Some moisture is spinning up, north of the Greater Antilles, but it is not expected to organize into any tropical trouble. «WTXL ABC 27, Jul 15»
2
Two Italian banks open millionaire credit line for business in Cuba
The Italian deputy minister is in these days visiting the Greater Antilles with 150 Italian businessmen to explore new business opportunities "in ... «Cuba Headlines, Jul 15»
3
Mario Coyula: “You have to build good, visible projects”
... roles, Coyula took part in a variety of scenarios that made him one of the major critics of architecture and urbanism in the Greater Antilles. «Cuban Art News, Jul 15»
4
Solidarity brigades activists to visit Cuba
Kenia Serrano, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, said that brigades of solidarity with the Greater Antilles about ... «Cuba Headlines, Jul 15»
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Convention calls for closer relations with Cuban church
... States from organizing mission trips and traveling on religious visas to the island, the largest and most populated of the Greater Antilles. «Episcopal News Service, Jul 15»
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Sandy's Garden ... Edible Fuchsias
Fuchsia triphylla, the first known species of the genus, was found on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean island group, the Greater Antilles ... «Falkirk Herald, Jun 15»
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Puerto Rico offers everything from hillside villages to luxurious …
... main island of Puerto Rico — a rectangular 110-by-40-mile island — and various smaller islands, which are part of the Greater Antilles island ... «Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jun 15»
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Guiana Highlands, Laptev Sea, Sydney
The Greater Antilles and the Queen Elizabeth Islands are part of which continent? 6. Niger, a country with one of the world's fastest growing ... «The Denver Post, Jun 15»
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Leader of Brooklyn's Roman Catholics condemns deportation crisis …
... peace and justice for the two largely Catholic nations that share the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea. «Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Jun 15»
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Chinese Votive Sword Found in Georgia suggests Pre-Columbian …
In the Greater Antilles, the impressive Taino culture, who migrated from Venezuela starting around 400 BC, and the Caribes, were equally ... «Ancient Origins, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Greater Antilles [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/greater-antilles>. Apr 2024 ».
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