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Caribbean English

Meaning Caribbean meaning

What does Caribbean mean?

Caribbean

an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream region including the Caribbean Islands

Synonyms Caribbean synonyms

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Examples Caribbean examples

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Simple sentences

The Caribbean abounds with islands.
Originally, Abraham Lincoln wanted all slaves to be deported to Africa or the Caribbean.
How about a Caribbean holiday?
This is an island in the Caribbean Sea.
Congratulations, you've just won a cruise to the Caribbean.

Movie subtitles

A king's right arm in the Caribbean. and a strong one.
I'll run every pirate and privateer into the bottom of the Caribbean.
I told you when I took office. that I would clean the Caribbean.
He vowed to clear the Caribbean of its sea butchers.
I'm rejoining my ships, and then we're going to search the Caribbean until we find Leech.
Say the word and the Caribbean is yours.
But along this lane of commerce. lie the shark-like teeth of the Florida Keys. where savage hurricanes come screaming out of the Caribbean. to drive tail ships onto the destroying shoals.
When you walked into Mrs. Mottram's tea party. it was like all the winds of the Caribbean.
I am leaving for the Caribbean now.
A cruise of the Caribbean on a yacht.
I hadn't seen him for a while, then just now this wire. inviting me on a cruise of the Caribbean.
Soon he became Captain Blood. known as the most courageous and daring pirate in all the Caribbean.
Your cousin Don Ramon and I saw Captain Blood at Cartagena. wearing the same blue and silver uniform. which he has made infamous throughout the Caribbean.
The best in the Caribbean.
In all the Caribbean, there is no buccaneer so strong as me.
Even so drunk, your brain is the greatest this side the Caribbean.
To the greatest captain on the Caribbean!
Any ship we meet in the Caribbean could be a pirate ship.
My plan is to sail down into the Caribbean from the north.
I'm leaving for the Caribbean now.
At this moment I'm playing in a tin hut somewhere in Alaska, a camp in Australia, a makeshift theatre in the Caribbean, or North Africa.
On the moving waters of the Caribbean he darts about like a dragonfly, glittering, uncapturable.
Please, Aunt Inez, I'd so love to see the caribbean.
Caribbean?
Why the Caribbean?
But if I could only see the Caribbean and just once before I marry, I'd never speak of it again, ever.
You'll like the Caribbean Queen.
Oh, that's too bad. That does eliminate your going on the Caribbean Queen.
To the Caribbean Sea.
Morgan was our only naval strength in the Caribbean.
Then suddenly remember that in December 1966,.you had a club in the Caribbean.
Dawes in New York, Hamilton in New Orleans and Baines in the Caribbean.
Baines was working on a small Caribbean island called San Monique.
The Caribbean.
In the Caribbean.
You know, there are hundreds of Caribbean islands.
Ahead of you, the Caribbean Sea, which is waiting for us.

News and current affairs

There was a time when north-south migratory flows in the western hemisphere were limited to Mexico and the Caribbean.
WASHINGTON, DC - Puerto Rico ought to be the jewel of the Caribbean.
Tourism has been stagnant for decades, even as travelers have flocked to other Caribbean destinations.
For thousands of South American, Caribbean, and African children rented out as maids and houseboys, there is no recourse when they are overworked, beaten, and raped.
The young worker does not learn how to play, or how to read and write; worse, he smokes and, in the Caribbean, he drinks cane rum to keep going, as he doesn't have enough to eat.
But they did so, in part, by penetrating the murky worlds of financial secrecy created and protected by the US Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service, and the US Congress (ever-protective of Caribbean tax havens).
Climate problems - floods, droughts, heat waves, extreme storms, massive forest fires, and more - also ravaged many other parts of the world in 2012, including China, Australia, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa's Sahel region.
There are hopeful signs: more than 160 countries have signed the World Health Organization's global tobacco control treaty, and the Caribbean heads of state have recently declared they want to tackle tobacco together.
The stronger provisions of previous trade agreements, such as the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), have been dumped.
Europeans subdued Amerindian populations and also brought in massive numbers of slaves from Africa, especially to the Caribbean basin and Brazil.
I have seen the human toll of disasters - from earthquakes in China and Haiti to floods in Pakistan and Bangladesh to Superstorm Sandy, which affected the Caribbean and North America, even inundating the lower floors of the UN facilities in New York.
The outliers were Venezuela, despite high oil prices, and the Caribbean Basin: Mexico, Central America, and the islands.
The movie invites viewers to conclude that global warming caused Hurricane Katrina, with Gore claiming that the warm Caribbean waters made the storm stronger.
Europeans colonized the Caribbean islands as sugar plantations, ruthlessly bringing African slaves by the millions to work, and die young, on those plantations.
Although the United States remains the main destination of Latin American and Caribbean exports, Asia is becoming an increasingly important market for goods based on natural resources.
The EU is currently negotiating trade liberalization deals with all of Latin America's regional blocs: Mercosur, the Caribbean Community, the Central America Common Market, and the Andean Community.
By contrast, America's flirtation with colonialism in the Spanish American War, its involvement in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean throughout the twentieth century, and, arguably, World War I, were not watersheds for the US.
Relations between China and Latin America and the Caribbean are paradoxical.
Even in the Caribbean and Central American countries - several of which do not have diplomatic relations with China - commerce has been prolific.
These new ties offer Latin America and the Caribbean both a new market and an example of how a dynamic economy can reduce poverty.
Essential to any real change is the creation of continental unity and regional affiliations such as Mercosur, and the Andino and Caribbean Pacts.
Similarly, over-fishing of sharks in the Caribbean has triggered a rise in octopus and a drastic drop in spiny lobsters and scallops - two major sources of revenue for neighboring coastal communities.
The Caribbean islands all have a similarly high proportion of their citizens residing in the US and depend as much as Mexico on remittances.

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