Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island group of western and northwest Scotland in the Atlantic Ocean, divided into the Inner Hebrides, closer to the Scottish mainland, and the Outer Hebrides, to the northwest. Settled by ancient Celts, the islands lay under Norwegian rule from the 10th to the 13th century, when they were ceded by treaty to the Scots.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
Hebridæ .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Collective name for the islands off the west coast of
Scotland , divided into theInner Hebrides and theOuter Hebrides .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland
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Examples
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Off the western coast of Scotland lie many islands known as the Hebrides; the group farthest to the northwest is called the Outer Hebrides, and three of these islands were North Uist, South Uist, and Benbecula – west of the Isle of Skye.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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The outer Hebrides are the dark shaded blue on the map of Scotland, right The Hebrides are a cold inhospitable place, with the wind from the north sea blowing down the Irish sea.
Miss Flora MacDonald de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The outer Hebrides are the dark shaded blue on the map of Scotland, right The Hebrides are a cold inhospitable place, with the wind from the north sea blowing down the Irish sea.
Archive 2008-01-13 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Phil -- if people want to live in the Outer Hebrides, that is their choice.
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Hebrides, which is proverbial, came full upon my recollection.
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Northwesterne Isles called the Hebrides, so many hundred yeeres agoe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Lewis, and all the Hebrides were their own, besides the estates of the
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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-- St. Colm, or Columbanus, who was born in 521, was the founder and abbot of a monastery in Iona, one of the Hebrides, which is also called Icolmkill -- the Isle of Colm's Cell.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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In the Hebrides is the Irish custom of eating on Hallowe'en a cake of meal and salt, or a salt herring, bones and all, to dream of some one bringing a drink of water.
The Book of Hallowe'en Ruth Edna Kelley
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His letters from the Hebrides to Mrs. Thrale are the original of that work of which the Journey to the Hebrides is the translation; and it is amusing to compare the two versions. '
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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