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OUTER HEBRIDES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Outer Hebrides mean? 

OUTER HEBRIDES (noun)
  The noun OUTER HEBRIDES has 1 sense:

1. a 130-mile long archipelago to the northwest of Scotlandplay

  Familiarity information: OUTER HEBRIDES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OUTER HEBRIDES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A 130-mile long archipelago to the northwest of Scotland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Holonyms ("Outer Hebrides" is a part of...):

Hebridean Islands; Hebridean Isles; Hebrides; Western Islands; Western Isles (a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland)


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