Crossword clues for antigua
antigua
- Caribbean island whose original name was Waladli
- Not in favour of August, on reflection, in Caribbean location
- Father Christmas shedding clothes over one summer month upset part of the WI
- Pinkie Brown? Huckleberry Finn? 007 possibly another one to include
- Island against dung? No, no!
- Caribbean cruise stop
- Leeward island
- Island in the West Indies
- Island near Barbuda
- Island neighboring Barbuda
- Island south of Barbuda
- Island on which Mount Obama is the highest point
- Island named by Columbus in 1493
- Caribbean island split into six parishes
- One of the Leeward Islands
- Island Columbus reached in 1493
- 1493 Columbus landing site
- Columbus discovery of 1493
- Its leading city is St. John's
- West Indies island
- Barbuda's island partner
- St. John's is its capital
- The largest of the islands comprising Antigua and Barbuda
- Stopover
- St. Johns's island
- West Indies resort island
- Caribbean island linked with Barbuda
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Caribbean island, from Spanish fem. of antiguo, literally "ancient, antique" (see antique); discovered by Columbus in 1493 and named by him for the church of Santa Maria la Antigua ("Old St. Mary's") in Seville.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Antigua can refer to:
Antigua , also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the native population, is an island in the West Indies. It is one of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region and the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua and Barbuda became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations on 1 November 1981.
Antigua means "ancient" in Spanish after an icon in Seville Cathedral, "Santa Maria de la Antigua"St. Mary of the Old Cathedral. The name Waladli comes from the indigenous inhabitants and means approximately "our own". The island's circumference is roughly and its area . Its population was 80,161 (at the 2011 Census). The economy is mainly reliant on tourism, with the agricultural sector serving the domestic market.
Over 32,000 people live in the capital city, St. John's, at . The capital is situated in the north-west and has a deep harbour which is able to accommodate large cruise ships. Other leading population settlements are All Saints (3,412) and Liberta (2,239), according to the 2001 census.
English Harbour on the south-eastern coast is famed for its protected shelter during violent storms. It is the site of a restored British colonial naval station called "Nelson's Dockyard" after Captain Horatio Nelson. Today English Harbour and the neighbouring village of Falmouth are internationally famous as a yachting and sailing destination and provisioning centre. During Antigua Sailing Week, at the end of April and beginning of May, the annual world-class regatta brings many sailing vessels and sailors to the island to play sports.
Usage examples of "antigua".
I--I know she came from Antigua that she did not come to England until she married your father.
Oh, she tried to make the best of it and liked it well enough, especially when James was born--but she always yearned for Antigua and always said how she envied me each time I went over to Barbados.
Morell estuvo escondido ese tiempo en una casa antigua, de patios con enredaderas y estatuas, de la calle Toulouse.
I mean nine months from last month when you and Mae were in Antigua working so hard on your suntans.
No more sailing the ships--the great mobile fortresses embattled against piracy and storm--to Barbados, Antigua or the American mainland, acquiring cargoes of tobacco, indigo or cotton.
El nuevo director de la Biblioteca, me dicen, es un literato que se ha consagrado al estudio de las lenguas antiguas, como si las actuales no fueran suficientemente rudimentarias, y a la exaltación demagógica de un imaginario Buenos Aires de cuchilleros.
De las antiguas civilizaciones de la época de los hiboríos y de los atlantes, sólo sobreviven algunas historias semilegendarias y fragmentarias.
Los chamanes vestidos con túnicas de color escarlata estaban arrodillados en fila alrededor del trono y del altar, cantando plegarias antiguas y formulando hechizos.
Densas selvas cubrieron las llanuras, ríos caudalosos se abrieron paso hasta el mar, surgieron montañas abruptas y los lagos cubrieron las ruinas de las antiguas ciudades situadas en los fértiles valles.