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peninsula
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun peninsula has 1 sense
- peninsula(n = noun.object) Array - a large mass of land projecting into a body of water; Array has particulars: anatolia, asia minor, balkan peninsula, balkans, indochina, indochinese peninsula, yucatan, yucatan peninsula, scandinavia, scandinavian peninsula, jutland, jylland, peloponnese, peloponnesian peninsula, peloponnesus, italian peninsula, nova scotia, arabia, arabian peninsula, sinai, sinai peninsula, dae-han-min-gook, han-gook, korea, korean peninsula, malay peninsula, iberia, iberian peninsula, katar, katar peninsula, qatar, qatar peninsula, horn of africa, somali peninsula, kola peninsula, crimea, kamchatka peninsula, taimyr peninsula, taymyr peninsula, seward peninsula, cape ann, cape cod, alaska peninsula, antarctic peninsula, palmer peninsula, cape york peninsula, chukchi peninsula, eyre peninsula, labrador-ungava peninsula, labrador peninsula, liaodong bandao, liaodong peninsula, baja california, lower california, lower peninsula, upper peninsula
is a kind of dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma
Derived form adjective peninsular1
CIDE DICTIONARY
peninsula, n. [L. peninsula or paeninsula; paene almost + insula an island. See Isle.].
A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
peninsula
Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Eurasia, Eurasian landmass, Europe, North America, South America, bill, breakwater, cape, chersonese, continent, coral reef, delta, foreland, head, headland, hook, landmass, main, mainland, mull, naze, ness, point, promontory, reef, sandspit, spit, spur, subcontinent, tongueROGET THESAURUS
peninsula
Land
N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.
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