The West Indies, more commonly referred to as the Caribbean, consists of three major island groups: the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles include some of the most well-known individual islands, including Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Word Root: CHRON (time) Example words: - CHRONology - CHRONic - synCHRONize - CHRONicle - anaCHRONism - CHRONometer #vocabulary #wordroot #chron.
Not to be confused with Cronus, the Titan father of Zeus. For other uses, see Chronos (disambiguation). Chronos (/ËkroÊnÉs/; Greek: ÏÏÏÎ½Î¿Ï, time, also transliterated as Khronos or Latinised as Chronus) is the personification of Time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature. Chronos already was confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, the Titan Cronus in antiquity due to the similarity in names.