WESTERN ISLANDS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Western Islands mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WESTERN ISLANDS (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 "Western Islands"):

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 ("Western 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)

 Context examples 

A friend of mine and I had such a lovely cruise together off the Western Islands.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)