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Caribbees

Caribbees is the plural of Caribbee.

Meaning of Caribbee

Noun

Caribbee (plural Caribbees)

  1. (archaic) One of the Carib people; a Caribbean.

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Proper noun

Caribbees

  1. The Caribbean.
    • To avoid being becalmed under the lee of Guadeloupe, our captain had taken the longer route to windward, and we were now crossing the pathway of Columbus when he first approached these islands of the Caribbees.1880, Frederick Albion Ober, Camps in the Caribbees, page 176
    • A railway runs across the island, the only one in the Caribbees, and by this conveyance some of our party made a visit to Codrington College, a long-established and honorable seat of learning.1895, Charles Augustus Stoddard, Cruising Among the Caribbees: Summer Days in Winter Months, page 172

Questions about Caribbees

What does Caribbees mean?
Caribbees means the Caribbean.
What is Caribbees the plural of?
Caribbees is the plural of Caribbee.
What part of speech is Caribbees?
Caribbees is a proper noun.

Words near Caribbees in the dictionary

  1. Caribbeanizing
  2. Caribbeanness
  3. Caribbeans
  4. Caribbeany
  5. Caribbee
  6. Caribbees
  7. caribe
  8. caribes
  9. caribflies
  10. caribfly
  11. cariboo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Caribbees (page history and authors); Caribbee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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