British West Indies

plural noun

1. a term formerly used for the possessions of Great Britain in the West Indies. Compare West Indies ( def 2 ).

British West Indies

plural noun

1. a former name for the states in the Caribbean that are members of the Commonwealth: the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; along with the islands which remain as United Kingdom dependencies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the British Virgin Islands

Example Sentences

It was otherwise in the British West Indies, where the whites were overshadowed by a more than sixfold population.

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Besides 5.7 per cent of the 365 came from the British West Indies.

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Our lands, like those of the British West Indies, would become almost valueless for the want of laborers to cultivate them.

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In the British West Indies, where slaves became apprentices in 1834, they are still "bought."

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Immediate emancipation worked admirably in the British West Indies.

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