What is another word for West Indian?

Pronunciation: [wˈɛst ˈɪndi͡ən] (IPA)

The term "West Indian" refers to people or things that are connected to the West Indies, a group of islands in the Caribbean region. However, there are various synonyms for this term that can be used interchangeably. For instance, Caribbean, West Indian diaspora, Caribbean Islander, or Antillean can be used as synonyms. They all refer to people or things that have a connection to the Caribbean region. These synonyms are particularly important when referring to people of West Indian origin, who have migrated to other countries, such as the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. They help to create a sense of identity and community among these groups, which may have different cultural backgrounds within the West Indies itself.

Synonyms for West indian:

What are the hypernyms for West indian?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    caribbean, caribbean american, Caribbean Citizen, Caribbean Islander, Tropical Islander, West Indian Islander.

Famous quotes with West indian

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  • While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.
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  • I contend that the continued racial classification of represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.
    Stephen Jay Gould
  • Yes, all Africa remembers that it was Litvinov who stood alone beside Haile Selassie in Geneva, when Mussolini's sons flew with the blessings of the Pope to drop bombs on Ethiopian women and children. Africa remembers that it was the Soviet Union which fought the attempts of the Smuts to annex Southwest Africa to the slave reservation of the Union of South Africa... if the peoples of the Congo refuse to mine the uranium for the atom bombs made in Jim Crow factories in the United States; if all these peoples demand an end to floggings, an end to the farce of 'trusteeship' in the former Italian colonies.... The Soviet Union is the friend of the African and the West Indian peoples.
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