单词 | half-isle |
释义 | half-islen. A peninsula. Cf. half-island n. 1. ΘΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > peninsula peninsulaa1552 byland1577 demi-island1600 half-island1600 chersonese1601 demi-isle1609 penisle1611 near-isle1625 1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles iii. f. cx Now adayes dwell Gotthy in the half Ile Taurica [L. in Chersoneso Taurica], which speake Dutche, and call themselus Gotthi. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. vi. 287 Creekes, promontories, straights, halfe-iles [L. paeninsulas]. 1772 tr. A. von Haller Usong II. iii. 87 At Baku he made a short stay, and thought it no mean occupation to view the wonders of nature on the half-isle [Ger. halbinsel] Okefra. 1852 Boston (Mass.) Daily Atlas 17 May Italy is a half isle, open from three sides to the friendship of all who sympathize with civil and religious liberty on earth. 1893 Sunday Inter Ocean (Chicago) 5 Nov. iii. 25/2 What bewildering scenic variations are met in a trip from cape to cape on the historic half isle. 1990 N. Tranter Kenneth (2012) (e-book ed.) On the rocky summit of this half-isle,..Ninian had allegedly built his very first chapel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < |
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