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HEBRIDEAN ISLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hebridean Isles mean? 

HEBRIDEAN ISLES (noun)
  The noun HEBRIDEAN ISLES has 1 sense:

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

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HEBRIDEAN ISLES (noun)


Sense 1

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 Isles"):

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

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

Holonyms ("Hebridean Isles" 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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