ALL meanings of british west indies
Brit·ish west In·dies
B b - noun plural british west indies 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 3
- noun british west indies former British possessions in the West Indies, including Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, etc. 3