BRITISH ISLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does British Isles mean? 

• BRITISH ISLES (noun)
  The noun BRITISH ISLES has 1 sense:

1. Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic

  Familiarity information: BRITISH ISLES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRITISH ISLES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "British Isles"):

GB; Great Britain (an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales)

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

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Channel Island (any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France)

Isle of Man; Man (one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea)

Isle of Wight; Wight (an isle and county of southern England in the English Channel)

Holonyms ("British Isles" is a part of...):

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

Holonyms ("British Isles" is a member of...):

British Empire (a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand)