West Indian.

Brit.

/ˌwɛst ˈɪndɪə/, U.S.

/ˌwɛst ˈɪndiə/

Forms: see also West Indy n.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name West India.

Etymology: < West India, formerly used as a geographical term in uses equivalent to those of West Indies n. 1 < west adj. + the name of India (see India n. and discussion at that entry). Compare East India n.For use of West India as a geographical term compare:1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria (title) The decades of the newe worlde or West India.1578 T. Nicholas (title) The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the Weast India, now called new Spayne.1598 Cures of Diseased C A great Fruit that growes in the West India, called Pina.1648 T. Gage (title) The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: or, A new Survey of the West India's.1662 W. Caton Testimony Cloud of Witnesses iv. 10 An Example in West-India, of the Spaniards Tormenting a Casique or Lord.1879 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands IV. xlvi. 298 West India was understood to extend from the French settlements in Newfoundland or Acadia, along the American coast to the Straits of Magellan, and so around to the South Sea.1913 Trans. Optical Soc. 13 51 That curious luminous insect of West India, the pyrophore.

a. West India Islands n. (also West India Isles) now historical the islands of the Caribbean.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > West Indies > [noun]

Indies1555

West Indies1555

West India Islands1612

Caribbean1835

1612 W. Symonds Proc. Eng. Colonie Virginia i. 3 in J. Smith Map of Virginia Three weekes we spent in refreshing ourselus amongst these west-India Iles.

a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1649 407/2 An Act passed touching the West-India Islands, and making them subordinate to the Government of England.

1765 J. Fothergill Considerations Relative to N. Amer. Colonies 36 How many People are there..who know no Difference between the Inhabitants of North America, and those of the West-India Islands?

1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 644/1 In Jamaica and others of the West India islands.

1852 C. W. Day Five Year's Resid. W. Indies II. 185 The West India Islands are full of the swindles of European tradesmen.

1921 Eng. Hist. Rev. 36 373 The character of society in the West India Islands in the eighteenth century was..very similar to that of Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas.

1922 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 22 Jan. 8/1 They are British negroes from the West India isles.

1997 M. Duffy in D. B. Gaspar & D. P. Geggus Turbulent Time iii. 79 Many people in Britain believed equally that France could not do without its West India islands.

†b. West India mango n. Obsolete (a) the anchovy pear, the fruit of the tree, Grias cauliflora; (b) a variety of mango, Mangifera indica, grown in the West Indies; the fruit of this tree.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > of South America or West Indies > other South American or West Indian fruits

mammee1587

coco-plum1699

water-sop1716

icaco1752

cherimoya1758

West India mango1774

vegetable pear1777

cinnamon apple1796

jaboticaba1824

butternut1827

Quito orange1846

Barbados-cherry1858

mountain mango1861

Suriname cherry1895

feijoa1898

acerola1954

1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica III. 810 Anchovy Pear or West India Mango.

1847 N.Y. Jrnl. Med. Sept. 164 All the plants belonging to the above order [sc. Anacardiaceae] have a resinous, gummy, or milky caustic juice, though their fruit is often edible and pleasant. The West India Mango belongs to it.

1893 Garden & Forest 29 Mar. 150/1 The first Havana watermelons are now offered in the New York fruit-stores at two dollars each, and West India mangoes are a dollar a dozen.

c. West India Docks n. docks in the Isle of Dogs in east London, originally used by vessels trading with the West Indies.Construction of the West India Docks began following the passing of the West India Dock Act in 1799; they formally ceased trading in 1980.

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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > dock > range of docks > specific

West India Docks1798

East India Docks1803

India Docks1818

1798 Times 3 Mar. 1/2 (heading) Port of London—West India Docks.

1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 208 It is the practice at the West India Docks to make a memorandum of the packages which are tared, on the back of the blue book.

1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 45 The East India Docks..are situated at Blackwall, below the entrance to the West India Docks.

1938 Amer. Hist. Rev. 43 194 The British colonial merchant could..forward the indigo, cocoa, and cotton of the Spanish Main to the West India docks.

2004 Time Out 31 Mar. (Guide to Greenwich, Docklands & Tower Hill Suppl.) 4/1 The West India Docks is a must. There are so many lovely old buildings there and you can get a real flavour of how the old docklands used to be.

2. attributive. Designating people or things relating to or connected with the West Indies. Now chiefly historical.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > West Indies > [adjective]

West Indy1587

West Indian1589

West India1622

Caribbee1627

Caribbean1658

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo i. xxv. 154 It is an ordinary matter..to make an Embargo vpon all Ships, at the departure of the West-India Fleet, or the Carrackes for the East-Indies.

1709 London Gaz. No. 4522/3 Three other of the West-India Ships were also taken.

1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vi. 80 The West-India dry Gripes are perhaps occasion'd by the too great Quantities of Acids.

1757 W. Burke Acct. European Settlem. Amer. II. vii. xviii. 273 All sorts of lumber for the West-India trade.

1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica III. 806 West India Tea—Capraria, erecta ramosa &c.

1818 Mathews's Ann. Bristol Directory (ed. 20) 41 Brooke, Struth and Rose, West India Merchants.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. i. 22 The thin partitions of the West-India house.

1913 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 8 258/1 He..specialized in sugar planters' and refiners' castings for the West India trade.

1962 ‘C. S. Forester’ Hornblower & Hotspur v. 52 Grimes was a weedy young seaman who affirmed that he had acted as captain's steward in a West India packet.

2002 Econ. Hist. Rev. 55 437 There are at present no comparable studies of the loan portfolios of other London West India merchants.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	west india
释义	West Indian. Brit. /ˌwɛst ˈɪndɪə/, U.S. /ˌwɛst ˈɪndiə/ Forms: see also West Indy n. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name West India. Etymology: < West India, formerly used as a geographical term in uses equivalent to those of West Indies n. 1 < west adj. + the name of India (see India n. and discussion at that entry). Compare East India n.For use of West India as a geographical term compare:1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria (title) The decades of the newe worlde or West India.1578 T. Nicholas (title) The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the Weast India, now called new Spayne.1598 Cures of Diseased C A great Fruit that growes in the West India, called Pina.1648 T. Gage (title) The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: or, A new Survey of the West India's.1662 W. Caton Testimony Cloud of Witnesses iv. 10 An Example in West-India, of the Spaniards Tormenting a Casique or Lord.1879 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands IV. xlvi. 298 West India was understood to extend from the French settlements in Newfoundland or Acadia, along the American coast to the Straits of Magellan, and so around to the South Sea.1913 Trans. Optical Soc. 13 51 That curious luminous insect of West India, the pyrophore. 1. a. West India Islands n. (also West India Isles) now historical the islands of the Caribbean. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > West Indies > [noun] Indies1555 West Indies1555 West India Islands1612 Caribbean1835 1612 W. Symonds Proc. Eng. Colonie Virginia i. 3 in J. Smith Map of Virginia Three weekes we spent in refreshing ourselus amongst these west-India Iles. a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1649 407/2 An Act passed touching the West-India Islands, and making them subordinate to the Government of England. 1765 J. Fothergill Considerations Relative to N. Amer. Colonies 36 How many People are there..who know no Difference between the Inhabitants of North America, and those of the West-India Islands? 1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 644/1 In Jamaica and others of the West India islands. 1852 C. W. Day Five Year's Resid. W. Indies II. 185 The West India Islands are full of the swindles of European tradesmen. 1921 Eng. Hist. Rev. 36 373 The character of society in the West India Islands in the eighteenth century was..very similar to that of Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas. 1922 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 22 Jan. 8/1 They are British negroes from the West India isles. 1997 M. Duffy in D. B. Gaspar & D. P. Geggus Turbulent Time iii. 79 Many people in Britain believed equally that France could not do without its West India islands. †b. West India mango n. Obsolete (a) the anchovy pear, the fruit of the tree, Grias cauliflora; (b) a variety of mango, Mangifera indica, grown in the West Indies; the fruit of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > of South America or West Indies > other South American or West Indian fruits mammee1587 coco-plum1699 water-sop1716 icaco1752 cherimoya1758 West India mango1774 vegetable pear1777 cinnamon apple1796 jaboticaba1824 butternut1827 Quito orange1846 Barbados-cherry1858 mountain mango1861 Suriname cherry1895 feijoa1898 acerola1954 1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica III. 810 Anchovy Pear or West India Mango. 1847 N.Y. Jrnl. Med. Sept. 164 All the plants belonging to the above order [sc. Anacardiaceae] have a resinous, gummy, or milky caustic juice, though their fruit is often edible and pleasant. The West India Mango belongs to it. 1893 Garden & Forest 29 Mar. 150/1 The first Havana watermelons are now offered in the New York fruit-stores at two dollars each, and West India mangoes are a dollar a dozen. c. West India Docks n. docks in the Isle of Dogs in east London, originally used by vessels trading with the West Indies.Construction of the West India Docks began following the passing of the West India Dock Act in 1799; they formally ceased trading in 1980. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > dock > range of docks > specific West India Docks1798 East India Docks1803 India Docks1818 1798 Times 3 Mar. 1/2 (heading) Port of London—West India Docks. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 208 It is the practice at the West India Docks to make a memorandum of the packages which are tared, on the back of the blue book. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 45 The East India Docks..are situated at Blackwall, below the entrance to the West India Docks. 1938 Amer. Hist. Rev. 43 194 The British colonial merchant could..forward the indigo, cocoa, and cotton of the Spanish Main to the West India docks. 2004 Time Out 31 Mar. (Guide to Greenwich, Docklands & Tower Hill Suppl.) 4/1 The West India Docks is a must. There are so many lovely old buildings there and you can get a real flavour of how the old docklands used to be. 2. attributive. Designating people or things relating to or connected with the West Indies. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > West Indies > [adjective] West Indy1587 West Indian1589 West India1622 Caribbee1627 Caribbean1658 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo i. xxv. 154 It is an ordinary matter..to make an Embargo vpon all Ships, at the departure of the West-India Fleet, or the Carrackes for the East-Indies. 1709 London Gaz. No. 4522/3 Three other of the West-India Ships were also taken. 1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vi. 80 The West-India dry Gripes are perhaps occasion'd by the too great Quantities of Acids. 1757 W. Burke Acct. European Settlem. Amer. II. vii. xviii. 273 All sorts of lumber for the West-India trade. 1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica III. 806 West India Tea—Capraria, erecta ramosa &c. 1818 Mathews's Ann. Bristol Directory (ed. 20) 41 Brooke, Struth and Rose, West India Merchants. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. i. 22 The thin partitions of the West-India house. 1913 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 8 258/1 He..specialized in sugar planters' and refiners' castings for the West India trade. 1962 ‘C. S. Forester’ Hornblower & Hotspur v. 52 Grimes was a weedy young seaman who affirmed that he had acted as captain's steward in a West India packet. 2002 Econ. Hist. Rev. 55 437 There are at present no comparable studies of the loan portfolios of other London West India merchants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1612
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