[ kar-uh-bee-uhn, kuh-rib-ee- ]SHOW IPA

/ krbin, krbi- /PHONETIC RESPELLING

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a Carib.

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The founder of Pan Am, Juan Trippe, knew how business was done in the Caribbean.

It then forms the divide between the Cauca and Atrato valleys, and terminates near the Caribbean coast.

A tiny bit of land about one hundred miles west of Dominica in the middle of the Caribbean.

"I'll just think back a few lines and remember this little Caribbean slip-up," he laughed.

River navigation could not have been more quiet than were these nights on the blue Caribbean Sea.

At this time the enemy held the route to the Caribbean, and Walker's first orders were to dislodge him.

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Caribbean

/ (krbin, US krbn) /

of, or relating to, the Caribbean Sea and its islands

of, or relating to, the Carib or any of their languages

the Caribbean the states and islands of the Caribbean Sea, including the West Indies, when considered as a geopolitical region

a member of any of the peoples inhabiting the islands of the Caribbean Sea, such as a West Indian or a Carib

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Caribbean

from Carib, indigenous people's name for themselves, + -ean.

Online Etymology Dictionary, 2010 Douglas Harper

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