First Known Use: 1772
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Caribbean
adjective Ca·rib·be·an \ˌker-ə-ˈbē-ən, ˌka-rə-, kə-ˈri-bē-ən\
: of or relating to the Caribbean Sea or its islands or to the people of the islands
Full Definition of CARIBBEAN
: of or relating to the Caribs, the eastern and southern West Indies, or the Caribbean Sea
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Origin of CARIBBEAN
New Latin Caribbaeus, from Caribes
Rhymes with CARIBBEAN
Aeschylean, Anacreon, apogean, Aramaean, Atlantean, Cerberean, cyclopean, Damoclean, empyrean, European, Galilean, Hasmonaean, Herculean, Idumaean, Ituraean, Jacobean, kallikrein, Maccabean, Manichaean, Mycenaean, nemertean, nepenthean, panacean, perigean, Sadducean, Sisyphean, Tacitean, Tennessean, Typhoean
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