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peninsula|pɪˈnɪnsjʊlə|
Pl. -as |-əz|, formerly -æ. Also 7 in anglicized form (or from Fr.) peninsul, -e.
[a. L. pæninsula, f. pæne-, pene- almost + insula island: in F. péninsule (1544 in Hatz.-Darm.). Pæninsula in Livy and Pliny is translated by Holland demie island.]
A piece of land that is almost an island, being nearly surrounded by water; by extension, any piece of land projecting into the sea, so that the greater part of its boundary is coast-line; e.g. southern India, the Balkan Peninsula.
1538Leland Itin. III. 21 This Peninsula to cumpace it by the Rote lakkith litle of a Mile. 1577Harrison England i. viii. in Holinshed I. 14 b/2 None Islandes at all..but one lytle Byland, Cape or Peninsula. 1612Capt. Smith Map Virginia 4 Their corne-fields being girded therein in a manner as Peninsulaes. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 220 A promontory in forme of a pene-insula. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. xxiii. (1821) 434 That Pen-insula (being strong in its owne nature). 1754Pococke Trav. Eng. (Camden) II. 108 Crossing over in a boat to the peninsula of Selsey. 1807Pinkerton Geog. II. 203 The Malaian peninsula. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) I. i. 7 The Spanish and Italian Peninsulas have had a different history.
β1613Purchas Pilgrimage viii. xiv. (1614) 816 Next is that necke or narrow extent of Land..knitting the two great Peninsuls of the North and South America together. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 257 A Hill like a Peninsul. Ibid. 274 The region or Country called Fife which is a Peninsule..lying between two creekes of the Sea called Frith and Taye. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 351 A Pen-insule some call it and no Isle.
b. the Peninsula (spec.): Spain and Portugal.
1775R. Twiss Trav. Port. & Sp. 8 This peninsula (as the natives call Portugal and Spain). 1812Scott Let. to Miss J. Baillie 4 Apr., My thoughts are anxiously turned to the Peninsula. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. (1861) II. 290 The romantic race which had once swayed the Peninsula. |