greater antilles

1. 1.

   a group of islands in the western West Indies

   Broaderarchipelago

   Part ofAntilles

   PartsCubaHispaniolaPuerto RicoJamaica

Questions about greater antilles

What does greater antilles mean?

greater antilles means "a group of islands in the western West Indies".

Is greater antilles a common word?

greater antilles 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.