leeward islands

What does leeward islands mean?

leeward islands means "a group of islands in the eastern West Indies".

Is leeward islands a common word?

leeward islands 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for leeward islands come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.