ARAN ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aran Islands mean? 

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

1. three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARAN ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

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

Emerald Isle; Hibernia; Ireland (an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)

Galway Bay (a bay of the North Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland)