British Isles
Noun 1. Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic (hypernym) island (part-holonym) Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean (part-meronym) Great Britain | ||||
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British Isles
This article describes the archipelago in north-Western Europe. For those areas of the archipelago with constitutional links to the British monarchy, see British Islands.
The British Isles or British-Irish Isles (, or Oileáin Iarthair Eorpa, meaning Islands of Western Europe, Manx: Ellanyn Goaldagh, , ) is a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe comprising Great Britain, Ireland and a number of smaller islands. There are two sovereign states located on the islands: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The group also includes the crown dependencies of the Isle of Man and, by tradition, the Channel Islands, although the latter are not physically a part of the archipelago. There are other common uncertainties surrounding the extent, names and geographical elements of the island group.| See more at Wikipedia.org... |