Meaning of Saint-Domingue | Babel Free
sɛn dɔ.mɪŋDefinitions
A former French colony on the island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1809, roughly equivalent to modern-day Haiti.
Equivalents
Français
Saint-Domingue
Examples
“In a mere twelve years, for example, between 1779 and 1790, the slave ships that plied the coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to Mozambique unloaded close to four hundred thousand slaves in Saint Domingue.”
“Slavery was rarely pleasant, but the conditions on St. Domingue were notoriously bad.”
“The future general was born in 1762 in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue, in the western half of the island.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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