Greater Antilles

plural noun

the Greater Antilles
the Greater Antilles a group of islands in the Caribbean, including Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico

The length of the series of banks to the north of the Greater Antilles is about 800, and its average width 120 geographical miles.

The natives of the greater Antilles and Bahamas differed little in culture.

This hurricane reached over a zone stretching in breadth from Florida to the Greater Antilles.

If we believe the accounts of the Spaniards the inhabitants of the Greater Antilles were not altogether a savage people.

By this time the natives of the Greater Antilles were gone, and with them the thousands of captives from the mainland.

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