EMERALD ISLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Emerald Isle mean? 

• EMERALD ISLE (noun)
  The noun EMERALD ISLE has 1 sense:

1. an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

  Familiarity information: EMERALD ISLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMERALD ISLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Emerald Isle; Hibernia; Ireland

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Emerald Isle"):

Aran Islands (three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay)

Northern Ireland (a division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland)

Eire; Ireland; Irish Republic; Republic of Ireland (a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1921)

Meronyms (members of "Emerald Isle"):

Irishwoman (a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Ireland)

Irishman (a man who is a native or inhabitant of Ireland)

Irelander; Irish person (a native or inhabitant of Ireland)

Domain member region:

Dana; Danu (Celtic goddess who was the mother of the Tuatha De Danann; identified with the Welsh Don)

Aengus; Angus; Angus Og; Oengus (Celtic god of love and beauty; patron deity of young men and women)

Fomor; Fomorian (one of a group of Celtic sea demons sometimes associated with the hostile power of nature)

Gwydion (Celtic sky god; a magician; giver of arts and civilization)

Ler; Lir (the sea personified; father of Manannan; corresponds to Welsh Llyr)

Lug; Lugh (ancient Celtic god)

Manannan (Celtic god of the sea; son of Ler)

Morrigan; Morrigu (Celtic war goddess)

Tuatha De; Tuatha De Danann (group of Celtic gods or demigods; ruled Ireland in the Golden Age)

banshee; banshie ((Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death)

macushla ((an Irish term of address expressing affection) darling)

O'Toole; Peter O'Toole; Peter Seamus O'Toole (British actor (born in Ireland in 1932))

Dagda (chief Celtic god of the Tuatha De Danann; father of Angus Og and Brigit)

Brigit (Celtic goddess of fire and fertility and agriculture and household arts and wisdom; later associated with Saint Bridget)

Boann (Celtic goddess; mother of Angus Og)

battle of Boyne; Boyne (a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690; William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts)

Ana (mother of the ancient Irish gods; sometimes identified with Danu)

ben (a mountain or tall hill)

barmbrack (a rich currant cake or bun)

ceilidh (an informal social gathering at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing and folk dancing and story telling)

keen (a funeral lament sung with loud wailing)

Irish; Irish Gaelic (the Celtic language of Ireland)

patronym; patronymic (a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor))

shillalah; shillelagh (a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn))

water spaniel (any dog of two large curly-coated breeds used for hunting waterfowl)

Drogheda (in 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants)

Instance hyponyms:

Erin (an early name of Ireland that is now used in poetry)

Holonyms ("Emerald Isle" is a part of...):

British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic)