the indies

Questions about the indies

What does the indies mean?

the indies means "the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area".

What is another word for the indies?

Close synonyms include West Indies. 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 the indies a common word?

the 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.