Definition of Inner Hebrides

1. Noun. Islands between the Outer Hebrides and the western coast of Scotland.


Definition of Inner Hebrides

1. Proper noun. The islands of the Hebrides around the coast of Scotland, separated from the Outer Hebrides by the Little Minch. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inner Hebrides

Ingrid
Ingrid Bergman
Ingush
Ingush Autonomous Oblast
Ingushes
Ingushetia
Ingvaeonic
Inigo Jones
Initialwörter
Injun
Inka
Inklings
Inland Revenue
Inland Sea
Inna
Inner Hebrides (current term)
Inner Light
Inner Manchuria
Inner Mongolia
Inner Tibet
Innocent III
Innocents' Day
Innsbruck
Innu
Innu-aimun
Innuit
Innuits
Ino
Inocor
Inocybe

Literary usage of Inner Hebrides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"SEPTEMBER 13. The following Papers were read : — 1. Time Intervals in the Volcanic History of the Inner Hebrides. By Sir ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, DCL, F.RJS. 2. ..."

2. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"Among the Tertiary basalt-plateaux of the Inner Hebrides, for instance, it can be shown that the lavas were already amygdaloidal before the protrusion of ..."

3. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1885)
"... but this correlation has not been confirmed by the discovery of any reptilian remains in the beds at Golspie. of the Highlands, and the Inner Hebrides, ..."

4. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips, Robert Etheridge (1885)
"Inner Hebrides.—Finally, there are, in the Inner Hebrides, islands where the surfaces are portions of lava sheets poured out from volcanoes which themselves ..."

5. Adventure Guide to Scotland by Martin Li (2005)
"There are some 500 islands and islets in total, divided into the Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides, of which fewer than 100 are inhabited. ..."

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