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HEBRIDEAN ISLANDS

Dictionary entry overview: What does Hebridean Islands mean?

• HEBRIDEAN ISLANDS (noun)
The noun HEBRIDEAN ISLANDS has 1 sense:

1. a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland

Familiarity information: HEBRIDEAN ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HEBRIDEAN ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Hebridean Islands; Hebridean Isles; Hebrides; Western Islands; Western Isles

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Hebridean Islands"):

Inner Hebrides (islands between the Outer Hebrides and the western coast of Scotland)

Outer Hebrides (a 130-mile long archipelago northwest of Scotland)

Holonyms ("Hebridean Islands" is a part of...):

Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)

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