PENINSULA


Meaning of PENINSULA in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

arabian

About 10 million years before that, another rift began along what is now the southern shore of the Arabian peninsula .

entire

Many of them seemed like tiny oases hemmed in by the alien rubber which overran the entire peninsula .

iberian

The Roman past lay more heavily over the Iberian peninsula .

The idea of a holiday in the north-west of the Iberian peninsula had developed in the preceding six months.

■ VERB

divide

The United States has 37,000 troops based in the southern half of the divided peninsula .

The United States continued to insist that any deal-making regarding the divided peninsula would have to involve Seoul.

The prospects for any sort of reconciliation on the divided peninsula appeared slim indeed.

The upshot of all this was to heighten the military tension on the divided peninsula .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Although the rebel numbers are small, there are known to be many infiltrators and sympathisers on the peninsula .

But it is obvious that one relatively small peninsula can not contain this missionary zeal indefinitely.

Fewer people make it out to the peninsula .

One resident of that city purchased five hundred rifles for shipment to the peninsula .

The Army and the police remained under intense pressure in the Jaffna peninsula where many camps and stations were under siege.

The Mayan civilisation flourished in the Yucatan peninsula between 300AD and 900AD.

This provided for the withdrawal of federal forces from the strategic Prevlaka peninsula overlooking Dubrovnik by Oct. 20.

When you own a peninsula , you own the very essence of the Chesapeake country.

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