Faeroe Islands love

Definitions

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  • proper noun Alternative form of Faroe Islands.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a self-governing colony that is a possession of Denmark in the Faroe Islands
  • noun a group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands

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Examples

  • Rising volcanic activity spurred aviation authorities in Ireland, northwest Scotland and the Faeroe Islands to shut down services Tuesday after a two-week hiatus.

    'Summer Of Uncertainty' Looms For Irish Aviation 2010

  • Rising volcanic activity spurred aviation authorities in Ireland, northwest Scotland and the Faeroe Islands to shut down services Tuesday after a two-week hiatus.

    Iceland Ash May Keep Choking Air Travel 2010

  • The pair had set out from the Butt of Lewis on Friday, originally planning to kayak to the Faeroe Islands but because of the weather conditions decided to head for the island of North Rona, nearly 60 miles North of Stornoway, and then on to the island of Sule Skerry.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • The Faeroe Islands has offered its neighbor a $52 million loan.

    Overheard 2008

  • The pair had set out from the Butt of Lewis on Friday, originally planning to kayak to the Faeroe Islands but because of the weather conditions decided to head for the island of North Rona, nearly 60 miles North of Stornoway, and then on to the island of Sule Skerry.

    Sea kayakers rescued after becoming ill Thatsnews 2008

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have an offer now for him in Faeroe Islands.

    CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2007 2007

  • With the striking exception of Iceland and the Faeroe Islands -- where sjónvarp, a beautiful neologism combining the Germanic roots for sight and throw, cf. warp (Eng.) and werfen (Ger.), designates television -- the entire OECD uses some derivative of the word television.

    Alas, Babel 2006

  • So what do we have here: in the Faeroe Islands, Lamb says that the fluctuations are far more marked than in Central England.

    Lamb on the Northeast Atlantic « Climate Audit 2006

  • The area has been regarded as the main path of the warm saline North Atlantic Drift water heading towards the Arctic; but when the polar water occasionally intrudes from the north, sea surface temperature is liable to fall by 3 to 5 deg C and presumably by more than this when, as in 1888, the ice advanced to near the Faeroe Islands.

    Lamb on the Northeast Atlantic « Climate Audit 2006

  • With the striking exception of Iceland and the Faeroe Islands -- where sjónvarp, a beautiful neologism combining the Germanic roots for sight and throw, cf. warp (Eng.) and werfen (Ger.), designates television -- the entire OECD uses some derivative of the word television.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

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