Definition of Hebridean islands

1. Noun. A group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland.

Exact synonyms: Hebridean Isles, Hebrides, Western Islands, Western Isles
Group relationships: Scotland
Terms within: Inner Hebrides, Outer Hebrides
Generic synonyms: Archipelago
Derivative terms: Hebridean

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hebridean Islands

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Hebridean
Hebridean Islands
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Hecate
Hecate Strait
Hecht
Hecht's pneumonia
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Literary usage of Hebridean islands

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

1. List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Orkney and Shetland, with Notes of by James Walls Cursiter (1894)
"BOOKS relating to NORTHERN LATITUDES, and LITERATURE, and to the ORKNEY, SHETLAND, and hebridean islands. Many from the Library of the lat<- ^PTAIN THOMAS, ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"... and seventy-four ears which elapsed between the death of ¡ruce and the union of the crowns in 1603, le hebridean islands and the adjacent ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The hebridean islands exceed 500 in number, of which one-fifth are inhabited. Of the inhabited islands n belong to Ross and Cromarty, 47 to Inverness-shire, ..."

4. The Nineteenth Century (1889)
"During the 274 years which elapsed between the death of Bruce and the union of the crowns in 1603, the hebridean islands and the adjacent coasts were a ..."

5. The Monks of the West from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Francis Aidan Gasquet (1896)
"The whales have disappeared, as have also the seals, which as late as 1703 supplied food to the hebridean islands. The monastery of lona kept a flock of ..."

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