Saint-Domingue

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛn dɔ.mɪŋ/

Proper noun

Saint-Domingue

1. (now historical) A former French colony on the island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1809, roughly equivalent to modern-day Haiti.
   • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 40:

     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.

   • 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 14:

     Slavery was rarely pleasant, but the conditions on St. Domingue were notoriously bad.

   • 2012, Jonathan Keates, ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review, page 402:

     The future general was born in 1762 in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue, in the western half of the island.

Alternative forms

• Saint Domingue, St. Domingue/St Domingue

Related terms

• Dominguan, Saint-Dominguan (St. Dominguan), Dominguois, Saint-Dominguois, Saint Dominican

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.dɔ.mɛ̃ɡ/

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Proper noun

Saint-Domingue m

1. (now historical) Saint-Domingue (a former French colony on the island of Hispaniola, roughly equivalent to modern-day Haiti)
2. Santo Domingo (the capital city of the Dominican Republic)