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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Windward Islands, Windward Islesnoun

    a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the southern part of the Lesser Antilles

Wiktionary

  1. Windward Islandsnoun

    The southern islands of the Lesser Antilles, comprised of the island nations of Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago

ChatGPT

  1. windward islands

    The Windward Islands are a group of islands located in the Caribbean Sea, at the southeastern end of the Caribbean. They are the southern part of the Lesser Antilles and include islands such as Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines, Grenada, Dominica, and Trinidad and Tobago. They are named 'Windward' because they're exposed to the wind ("windward") of the northeast trade winds (easterlies).

Wikidata

  1. Windward Islands

    The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles, within the West Indies. They lie south of the Leeward Islands.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Windward Islands

    a group of the West Indies, the Lesser Antilles, belonging to Britain, extending from Martinique to Trinidad.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of windward islands in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of windward islands in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of windward islands in a Sentence

  1. Dan Kottlowski:

    We are expecting very rough and dangerous surf along with damaging tropical-storm-force and hurricane-force winds over the northern Leeward Islands, and tropical-storm-force winds over the southern Leewards to perhaps the northern Windward Islands, mostly in gusts.

  2. The NHC:

    Regardless of development, locally heavy rainfall is possible over the Windward Islands and the northeastern coast of Venezuela Tuesday night and Wednesday.

  3. Haley Brink:

    In August, the typical origin point for a tropical system to form is near the Leeward and Windward islands in the Caribbean, where Fred formed and where Grace is likely to form, by September, when peak hurricane season is, this origin area greatly expands to include much of the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the western Atlantic as tropical waves track west off the coast of Africa.

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