IBERIAN PENINSULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Iberian Peninsula mean? 

• IBERIAN PENINSULA (noun)
  The noun IBERIAN PENINSULA has 1 sense:

1. a peninsula in southwestern Europe

  Familiarity information: IBERIAN PENINSULA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IBERIAN PENINSULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A peninsula in southwestern Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Iberia; Iberian Peninsula

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Iberian Peninsula"):

Portugal; Portuguese Republic (a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil))

Andorra; Principality of Andorra (a small republic in the eastern Pyrenees between Spain and France)

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

Meronyms (members of "Iberian Peninsula"):

Iberian (a native or inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula (especially in ancient times))

Holonyms ("Iberian Peninsula" is a part of...):

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

 Context examples 

There are no precedents for these kinds of social practices in the Iberian Peninsula and they are unique to the Balearic Islands.

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