Hebrides
pronunciation
How to pronounce Hebrides in British English:
UK [ˈhebridi:z]
How to pronounce Hebrides in American English:
US [ˈhɛbrɪˌdiz]
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- Noun:
- a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland
Word Origin
- Hebrides
- originally Ebudae, Haebudes, of uncertain origin. Apparently a scribal error turned -u- into -ri-. The Norse name, Suðregar, "Southern Islands," is relative to the Orkneys. Related: Hebridean.
Example
- 1. Skye -- an island of northwest scotland in the inner hebrides .
- 2. The same model is being considered for caledonian macbrayne , the state-owned shipping company that runs ferry services to the hebrides .
- 3. It includes the solomon islands , new hebrides , new caledonia , the bismarck archipelago , various other island groups , and sometimes new guinea .
- 4. Scotland has about 800 islands including the orkneys . Shetlands and hebrides and hundreds of lakes .
- 5. Very tall evergreen of new caledonia and the new hebrides similar to norfolk island pine .