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.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English Â© 2017. -chron-, root. -chron- comes from Greek, where it has the meaning time.'' This meaning is found in such words as: anachronism, chronic, chronicle, chronology, synchronize.
Chthulucene is a simple word.2 It is a compound of two Greek roots. (khthÃ´n and kainos) that together name a kind of timeplace for learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying in response-Â­ability on a. damaged earth. Kainos means now, a time of beginnings, a time for ongoing, for freshness.