peninsula
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sə noun
1.
an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
2.
a.
Spain and Portugal together; Iberian Peninsula; Iberia.
b.
a district in SE Virginia between the York and James rivers: Civil War battles.
Related forms
pen·in·su·lar, adjective
trans·pen·in·su·lar, adjective
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Peninsula
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
peninsula (pɪˈnɪnsjʊlə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a narrow strip of land projecting into a sea or lake from the mainland | |
| [C16: from Latin, literally: almost an island, from paene | |
| usage The noun peninsula is sometimes confused with the adjective peninsular: the Iberian peninsula (not peninsular) | |
| pen'insular | |
| —adj | |
| Peninsula | |
| —n | |
| the Peninsula short for the Iberian Peninsula | |
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Word Origin & History
peninsula
1538, from L. pæninsula, lit. "almost an island," from pæne "almost" + insula "island." Earlier translated as demie island.
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Science Dictionary
| peninsula (pə-nĭn'syə-lə) Pronunciation Key
A piece of land that projects into a body of water and is connected with a larger landmass. |
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
peninsula definition
A body of land enclosed on three sides by water, jutting out from a larger body of land.
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Example sentences
But the narrow peninsula contains relatively little inland ice.
The stadium, which will sit on an artificial peninsula in the gulf, is designed to evoke its marine setting.
Then my fingers came upon the fleshy peninsula of an enlarged liver extending below his ribs on the right.
The family's expected visit comes during high tensions on the Korean peninsula.
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