windward isles

Questions about windward isles

What does windward isles mean?

windward isles means "a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the southern part of the Lesser Antilles".

What is another word for windward isles?

Close synonyms include Windward Islands. 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 windward isles a common word?

windward isles 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.