french west indies

1. 1.

   the islands in the Lesser Antilles that are administered by France

   Broaderregion

   Part ofWest Indies

Questions about french west indies

What does french west indies mean?

french west indies means "the islands in the Lesser Antilles that are administered by France".

Is french west indies a common word?

french west indies is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.