Definition of Faroe islands

1. Noun. A self-governing colony that is a possession of Denmark in the Faroe Islands.

Exact synonyms: Faeroe Islands, Faeroes, Faroes
Generic synonyms: Possession

2. Noun. A group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands.
Exact synonyms: Faeroe Islands, Faeroes, Faroes
Terms within: Thorshavn
Group relationships: Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean
Generic synonyms: Island

Definition of Faroe islands

1. Proper noun. Group of islands in the north Atlantic Ocean between Scotland and Iceland; a self-governing territory of Denmark. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Faroe Islands

Fargo
Farhud
Faridabad
Faridpur District
Faries
Farley maidenhair
Farley maidenhair fern
Farm Credit System
Farmer
Farmer's lung
Farmer-Labor Party
Farmers
Farmington
Farnsworth-Munsell colour test
Faro
Faroe Islands
Faroes
Faroese
Faroish
Farouk I
Farquhar
Farquharson
Farr's law
Farragut
Farrant's mounting fluid
Farre's line
Farrell
Farsala
Farsi

Literary usage of Faroe islands

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

1. History of the Norwegian People by Knut Gjerset (1915)
"Islands had a population of 28711. The cities are Lerwick and Scalloway, with 4000 and 600 inhabitants respectively. 25. ICELAND AND THE faroe islands ..."

2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"For the purpose of regulating the fisheries outside territorial waters around the faroe islands and Iceland> Great Britain and Denmark signed on June 24, ..."

3. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1903)
"faroe islands, Iceland.—The older Tertiary basalt-plateaux, so well displayed in the north-west of Britain, are repeated in the faroe islands and in Iceland ..."

4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1882)
"The faroe islands—some of them are, however, mere rocks —are ... The glory of the faroe islands belongs rather to the past than to the present, ..."

5. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1882)
"The faroe islands—some of them are, however, mere rock? ... The glory of the faroe islands belongs rather to the past than to the present, and to a past, ..."

6. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander (1855)
"... under the reigns of the two Olofs, to a series of Northern islands, dependent on this kingdom, — to the Orcades,3 and to the faroe islands. ..."

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