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Saint Vincent en · PROPN

Etymology

saint+Vincent. * (island): Calque from Spanish, from Italian. Coined by Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus in 1498, after the island was sighted on St Vincent's Day, 22 January 1498.

Meanings

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see saint, Vincent., a saint named Vincent
  2. An island of the Caribbean, the largest island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: a country in the Caribbean.

Forms

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St-Vincent alternative lexicographic
Saint-Vincent alternative lexicographic
St. Vincent alternative lexicographic
St Vincent alternative lexicographic
St.-Vincent alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

Vincentian · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Petit Saint Vincent

Relateds

Vincentian