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WESTERN ISLES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Western Isles mean?
• WESTERN ISLES (noun)
The noun WESTERN ISLES has 1 sense:
1. a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland
Familiarity information: WESTERN ISLES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 Isles"):
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 Isles" 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)
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