Peninsula
[pɪ'nɪnsjʊlə] or [pə'nɪnsələ]
Definition
(n.) A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.
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Definition
n. land so surrounded by water as to be almost an island.—adj. Penin′sular pertaining to a peninsula: in the form of a peninsula: inhabiting a peninsula.—n. Peninsular′ity state of being or of inhabiting a peninsula: narrow provincialism.—v.t. Penin′sulate to form into a peninsula: to surround almost entirely with water.—Peninsular war the war in Spain and Portugal carried on by Great Britain against Napoleon's marshals (1804-1814).—The Peninsula Spain and Portugal.
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Examples
- The peninsula of Italy was not then the smiling land of vineyards and olive orchards it has since become. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Fort Fisher was situated upon a low, flat peninsula north of Cape Fear River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They carried their raiding right down the Italian peninsula, devastating all Etruria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The greater part of the Balkan peninsula was conquered by these people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Since then the river has made a cut-off, leaving what was the peninsula in front of the city, an island. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This, if my memory serves me correctly, broke through the only pontoon bridge we had in all our march across the peninsula. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Upon these reports Butler determined to withdraw his troops from the peninsula and return to the fleet. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Pharaohs of the 1st Dynasty were already working the copper and turquoise mines in the peninsula of Sinai. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- General Cornwallis was caught in the Yorktown peninsula in Virginia in 1781, and capitulated with his army. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The fort ran across this peninsula, about five hundred yards in width, and extended along the sea coast about thirteen hundred yards. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And to Blair I wrote: Their design is evidently to cross the Big Black and pass down the peninsula between the Big Black and Yazoo rivers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The rights were secured for the peninsula; Colombo and his friends organized the Italian Edison Company, and erected at Milan the first central station in that country. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- By 1761 the British found themselves completely dominant in the Indian peninsula. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Aryan tribes who had come down into the peninsula soon lost touch with their kindred to the west and north, and developed upon lines of their own. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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