English > peninsula: 1 sense > noun 1, object| Meaning | A large mass of land projecting into a body of water. |
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| Instances | Alaska Peninsula | A peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands) |
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| Antarctic Peninsula, Palmer Peninsula | A large peninsula of Antarctica that extends some 1200 miles north toward South America |
| Arabian Peninsula, Arabia | A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf |
| Asia Minor, Anatolia | A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey |
| Balkan Peninsula, Balkans | A large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range |
| Cape Ann | A Massachusetts peninsula to the north of Boston extending into the Atlantic Ocean |
| Cape Cod | A Massachusetts peninsula to the south of Boston extending into the Atlantic |
| Cape York Peninsula | A peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea |
| Chukchi Peninsula | peninsula of northeastern Siberia across the Bering Strait from northwestern Alaska |
| Crimea | A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov |
| Eyre Peninsula | A peninsula of southern Australia |
| Iberian Peninsula, Iberia | A peninsula in southwestern Europe |
| Indochina, Indochinese peninsula | A peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam |
| Italian Peninsula | A boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe extending into the Mediterranean Sea |
| Jutland, Jylland | peninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany |
| Kamchatka Peninsula | A peninsula in eastern Siberia |
| Kola Peninsula | A peninsula in northwestern Russia projecting eastward between the Barents Sea and the White Sea |
| Korea, Korean Peninsula, Dae-Han-Min-Gook, Han-Gook | An Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan |
| Labrador-Ungava Peninsula, Labrador Peninsula | A peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea |
| Liaodong Peninsula, Liaodong Bandao | A peninsula in northeastern China that extends into the Yellow Sea, between Bo Hai and Korea Bay |
| Lower California, Baja California | A mountainous peninsula on northwest Mexico |
| Lower Peninsula | The part of northern Michigan between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron |
| Malay Peninsula | A peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar |
| Nova Scotia | A peninsula in eastern Canada between the Bay of Fundy and the Saint Lawrence River |
| Peloponnese, Peloponnesus, Peloponnesian Peninsula | The southern peninsula of Greece |
| Qatar, Qatar Peninsula, Katar, Katar Peninsula | A peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf |
| Scandinavia, Scandinavian Peninsula | The peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden |
| Seward Peninsula | A peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle |
| Sinai, Sinai Peninsula | A peninsula in northeastern Egypt |
| Somali peninsula, Horn of Africa | A peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia |
| Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyr Peninsula | A peninsula in northern Siberia |
| Upper Peninsula | The peninsula between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan that forms the northwestern part of Michigan |
| Yucatan, Yucatan Peninsula | A peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea |
| Broader | land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma | The solid part of the earth's surface |
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| Spanish | peninsula, península |
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| Catalan | península |
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| Adjectives | peninsular | of or forming or resembling a peninsula |
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