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    WESTERN ISLANDS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotlandplay

    Synonyms:

    Hebridean Islands; Hebridean Isles; Hebrides; Western Islands; Western Isles

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

    Meronyms (parts of "Western Islands"):

    Inner Hebrides (islands between the Outer Hebrides and the western coast of Scotland)

    Outer Hebrides (a 130-mile long archipelago to the northwest of Scotland)

    Holonyms ("Western Islands" is a part of...):

    Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)

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