ORKNEY ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Orkney Islands mean? 

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

1. an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORKNEY ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Holonyms ("Orkney Islands" 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)

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

North Sea (an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970)

 Context examples 

The grand jury rejected the bill, on its being proved that I was on the Orkney Islands at the hour the body of my friend was found; and a fortnight after my removal I was liberated from prison.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)