PENINSULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peninsula mean? 

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

1. a large mass of land projecting into a body of water

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENINSULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large mass of land projecting into a body of water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("peninsula" is a kind of...):

dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)

Instance hyponyms:

Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea)

Crimea (a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov)

Kamchatka Peninsula (a peninsula in eastern Siberia; between Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk)

Taimyr Peninsula; Taymyr Peninsula (a peninsula in northern Siberia)

Seward Peninsula (a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle)

Cape Ann (a Massachusetts peninsula to the north of Boston extending into the Atlantic Ocean)

Cape Cod (a Massachusetts peninsula to the south of Boston extending into the Atlantic; a popular resort area)

Alaska Peninsula (a peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands))

Antarctic Peninsula; Palmer Peninsula (a large peninsula of Antarctica that extends some 1200 miles north toward South America; separates the Weddell Sea from the South Pacific)

Kola Peninsula (a peninsula in northwestern Russia projecting eastward between the Barents Sea and the White Sea)

Chukchi Peninsula (peninsula of northeastern Siberia across the Bering Strait from northwestern Alaska)

Eyre Peninsula (a peninsula of southern Australia)

Labrador-Ungava Peninsula; Labrador Peninsula (a peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea; contains most of Quebec and the mainland part of Newfoundland and Labrador)

Liaodong Bandao; Liaodong Peninsula (a peninsula in northeastern China that extends into the Yellow Sea, between Bo Hai and Korea Bay)

Baja California; Lower California (a mountainous peninsula on northwest Mexico)

Lower Peninsula (the part of Michigan between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron)

Upper Peninsula (the peninsula between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan that forms the northwestern part of Michigan)

Anatolia; Asia Minor (a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey)

Horn of Africa; Somali peninsula (a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia)

Katar; Katar Peninsula; Qatar; Qatar Peninsula (a peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf)

Iberia; Iberian Peninsula (a peninsula in southwestern Europe)

Malay Peninsula (a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar)

Dae-Han-Min-Gook; Han-Gook; Korea; Korean Peninsula (an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook)

Sinai; Sinai Peninsula (a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea)

Arabia; Arabian Peninsula (a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources)

Nova Scotia (a peninsula in eastern Canada between the Bay of Fundy and the Saint Lawrence River)

Italian Peninsula (a boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe extending into the Mediterranean Sea)

Peloponnese; Peloponnesian Peninsula; Peloponnesus (the southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC)

Jutland; Jylland (peninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany)

Scandinavia; Scandinavian Peninsula (the peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden)

Yucatan; Yucatan Peninsula (a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea)

Indochina; Indochinese peninsula (a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam)

Balkan Peninsula; Balkans (a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range)

Derivation:

peninsular (of or forming or resembling a peninsula)

 Context examples 

For now, DFT2 appears to be confined to a peninsula in Tasmania’s south-east.

(Human anti-cancer drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils, University of Cambridge)

Thus it was that in the early spring of that year we found ourselves together in a small cottage near Poldhu Bay, at the further extremity of the Cornish peninsula.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A state in Mexico comprising the southern half of the Baja California peninsula.

(Baja California Sur, NCI Thesaurus)

A state in Mexico comprising the northern half of the Baja California peninsula.

(Baja California, NCI Thesaurus)

A British Overseas Territory comprising a peninsula on the southern coast of Cyprus.

(Akrotiri, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person with ethnic origins in the Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories in the Middle East and northern Africa.

(Arab, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany (Jutland); also includes two major islands (Sjaelland and Fyn).

(Denmark, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, consisting of a peninsula on the north coast of Germany and several major islands.

(Denmark, NCI Thesaurus)

The kingdom is a peninsula, terminated to the north-east by a ridge of mountains thirty miles high, which are altogether impassable, by reason of the volcanoes upon the tops: neither do the most learned know what sort of mortals inhabit beyond those mountains, or whether they be inhabited at all.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)