lesser antilles

Questions about lesser antilles

What does lesser antilles mean?

lesser antilles means "a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies".

What is another word for lesser antilles?

Close synonyms include Caribees. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lesser antilles a common word?

lesser 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.