URI(s)
Variants
- Caraïbes
- Caribbean Islanders
- Caribbean residents
- Caribbeans
- Caribeños
Narrower Terms
- Anguillans
- Antiguans
- Arubans
- Bahamians
- Barbadians
- Barbudans
- British Virgin Islanders
- Caymanians
- Cubans
- Dominicans (Dominica)
- Dominicans (Dominican Republic)
- Grenadians
- Guadeloupians
- Haitians
- Jamaicans
- Kittitians
- Martinicans
- Montserratians
- Nevisians
- Puerto Ricans
- Saint Lucians
- Saint Martiners
- Saint Vincentians
- Saint-Barths
- Saint-Martinois (Collectivity of Saint Martin)
- Sint Maarteners (Country of Sint Maarten)
- Tobagonians
- Trinidadians
- Turks and Caicos Islanders
- Virgin Islanders
Demonym For
Sources
- found: Merriam Webster online, Sept. 2, 2015:West Indies (the islands lying between SE North America & N S. America bordering the Caribbean & comprising the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, & Bahamas; West Indian, adjective or noun)
- found: Britannica online, Sept. 2, 2015:Caribbean island group redirects to West Indies (crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north. ... Three major physiographic divisions constitute the West Indies: the Greater Antilles, comprising the islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico; the Lesser Antilles, including the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, and Grenada; and the isolated island groups of the North American continental shelf--The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands--and those of the South American shelf, including Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire. (Bermuda, although physiographically not a part of the West Indies, has common historical and cultural ties with the other islands and is often included in definitions of the region.; in text: West Indians)
- found: Kittler, P.G. Food and culture, ©2012:table of contents (Caribbean Islanders)
- found: OCLC, Feb. 26, 2016(in titles: Caribbean Islanders)
- found: International thesaurus of refugee terminology, 1989(Caribbeans. Caraïbes [French]. Caribeños [Spanish]. UF West Indians. BT Americans. NT Antiguans; Bahamans; Barbadians; Cubans; Dominican Republicans; Dominicans; Grenadans; Haitians; Jamaicans; Saint Christopher and Nevis Islanders; Saint Lucians; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Islanders; Trinidadians. RT Caribbean countries)
- found: Cambridge dictionaries online, May 25, 2016(Caribbean noun: a person from the Caribbean)
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 2015-09-02: new
- 2022-01-31: revised
Alternate Formats