SHETLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Shetland mean? 

• SHETLAND (noun)
  The noun SHETLAND has 2 senses:

1. an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland

2. a small sheepdog resembling a collie that was developed in the Shetland Islands

  Familiarity information: SHETLAND used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHETLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Shetland; Shetland Islands; Zetland

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Shetland" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small sheepdog resembling a collie that was developed in the Shetland Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Shetland; Shetland sheep dog; Shetland sheepdog

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

sheep dog; sheepdog; shepherd dog (any of various usually long-haired breeds of dog reared to herd and guard sheep)

 Context examples 

Only one man knew what had happened to him, and that was me, for, with my own eyes, I saw the skipper tip up his heels and put him over the rail in the middle watch of a dark night, two days before we sighted the Shetland Lights.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)