Word of the Day: Peninsula

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- Peninsula -

pronounced [puh-nin-suh-luh, -nins-yuh-luh]

noun

1. an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.

2. the Peninsula,

a. Spain and Portugal together; Iberian Peninsula; Iberia.

b. a district in SE Virginia between the York and James rivers: Civil War battles.

Origin

1538, from L. pæninsula, lit. "almost an island," from pæne "almost" + insula "island." Earlier translated as demie island.

Can be confused with
cape, promontory

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