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Antillean

Antillean

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Relating to the Antilles, islands in the Caribbean, or their people and culture
  • adjective
  • /ænˈtɪliən/
: antillano
  • Afro-Antilleans are experiencing a cultural revival of their Antillean identities through the process of tourism consumption.
  • Antillean cultural identity
  • Antillean Union

Examples

  • People recall that Haitian bands were the first musical groups billed as "local programming" on radio stations in the 1960s and 1970s, before the current wave of zouk and other Antillean popular styles.

    Academic text (2003)
  • At the present conjuncture, Afro-Antilleans are experiencing a cultural revival of their Antillean identities through the process of tourism consumption.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Antillean art is the restoration of our shattered histories.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Puerto Rican separatists joined the Antillean Union, led by the Cubans.

    Academic text (2001)
  • But to cut off the evolution of his racial consciousness from the common experience of race among Antillean nationalists in New York at the turn of the century would be to misread his life.

    Academic text (2001)
  • As mentioned above, undocumented Haitians cannot rent the new apartments, so they by necessity occupy the remnants of the older Antillean city.

    Academic text (2003)
  • They are an unwanted mirror because they reflect back not the Frenchified Guadeloupean culture of today, but the richer, more Antillean-based culture of the past.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Ethnic background was 97% white, 2% Surinamese, and 1% other (e.g., Dutch Antillean, Turkish, Moroccan), although all children were Dutch citizens.

    Academic text (1994)
  • But even in this Antillean Shangri-La, thinly populated and lightly developed as it is, some of the same bimillennial pressures threaten wildlife that menace traditional environments in more trafficked places.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The Antillean culture is rich with vibrant festivals and traditional music.

Surface Forms

Antillean positive

Morphology

Antillean = Antilles (transparent) = Antilles + ean

Formed by adding the regular demonymic suffix '-ean' to the place name 'Antilles', so the relation to the place is direct and obvious.

Etymology

Antillean comes from the name Antilles, the group of Caribbean islands, and that island name comes from a very old story about a faraway island called Antilia. The ending -ean means 'from' or 'relating to', so Antillean means 'relating to the Antilles'.