Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A piece of land that projects into a body of water and is connected with the mainland by an isthmus.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A piece of land almost surrounded by water, and connected with the mainland by a neck or isthmus. The Peninsula is often used absolutely for Spain and Portugal.
Wiktionary
- n. geography A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a large mass of land projecting into a body of water
Etymologies
- From Latin paenīnsula, from paene ("almost"), and īnsula ("island"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin paenīnsula : paene, almost + īnsula, island. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Perhaps the North Korean peninsula is an example, but otherwise its much smaller than in recent history.”
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“The erosion around the Redcliffe side of the peninsula is pretty FKN scary since the summer storms went through.”
Cheeseburger Gothic » This is why the Playboy Mansion sits atop a very high hill.
“That peninsula is Couch Park and on the west end of the property is the Metropolitan Learning Center, a PPS school, that has a pool run by the Parks Bureau in the basement.”
Portland "urban renewal" abuse hits new low (Jack Bog's Blog)
“Denmark, or at least the Jutland peninsula, is attached to Europe at another point.”
Measuring Corruption, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The peninsula is a Mexican jewel that is easily enjoyed by anyone with an RV or a tent and a sense of adventure.”
Traveler's Guide to Camping Mexico's Baja by Mike and Terry Church
“The topography of the entire Yucatan peninsula is essentially flat with elevation variations of less than 500 feet thereby providing no scenic mountainside retirement communities.”
“The word peninsula is derived from the Latin “paeninsula”.”
“The unique thing about Cancun on the Yucatan peninsula is that it is more Mexican than any other city or town here.”
“Exactly how many landmines buried in the Korean peninsula is a state secret.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peninsula’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Landforms
A Cyclopedia of Landforms.
plain, mountain, canyon, cliff, hill, arch, cave, plateau, mesa, butte, chimney, peneplain and 169 more...
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Nature and Environment
north, east, west, mountain, sea, beach, river, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, island and 205 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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Ula Ula
Words ending in -ula
hula, uvula, radula, spatula, scapula, scopula, nebula, blastula, peninsula, scoopula, tarantula, tentacula and 1 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 122 more...
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Words I Like
abide, sashay, microbial, scented, nature, amorphous, unknown, imagine, photogenic, soft, silken, history and 188 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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Landscape
riparian, littoral, talus, fen, ambit, savanna, remnant prairie, shortgrass prairie, tallgrass prairie, marsh, swamp, marshy and 199 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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danallison's Words
polysemy, self-reliance, savor, amenities, vintage, proverbial, colloquial, assemblage, ubiquitous, jocular, prosaic, perambulation and 443 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for peninsula.
john Oh, Prolagus, lovely. I have an enormous crush on B&S. Apr 28, 2008
Prolagus Everybody's gone, you picked me up for a long drive
We take the tourist route, the nights are light until midnight
We took the evening ferry over to the peninsula
We found the avenue of trees went up to the hill.
(Another sunny day, by Belle and Sebastian) Apr 28, 2008