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Puerto Rico

noun

A self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico. Synonyms: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Porto Rico, PR.

The smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean. Synonym: Porto Rico.

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"Puerto Rico" Quotes from Famous Books

... the night in Puerto Rico, then departed early in order to fly off the direct route for an advance look at Clipper Cay. Rick didn't intend to land. He would circle the island once or twice, then head again for Charlotte Amalie on ...

— The Wailing Octopus • Harold Leland Goodwin

... the Arabella was a Spanish vessel of twenty-six guns, the Santiago from Puerto Rico with a hundred and twenty thousand weight of cacao, forty thousand pieces of eight, and the value of ten thousand more in jewels. A rich capture of which two fifths under the articles went to Levasseur and his crew. Of the money and jewels a division was made on the ...

— Captain Blood • Rafael Sabatini

Words linked to "Puerto Rico" : Caribbean, commonwealth, pr, Culebra, San Juan, Greater Antilles, island, Vieques