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say it: an-TIL-eez
antilles is a noun meaning "a group of islands in the West Indies". It is pronounced /ænˈtɪliz/ — an-TIL-eez. It carries one recorded sense.
a group of islands in the West Indies
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for antilles come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.