Meaning of Orkney | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ellipsis of Orkney Islands.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
2. A historical county of Scotland, United Kingdom.

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“Orkney is an archipelago of 70 or so islands lying off the northeast tip⟳ of Scotland. “Everywhere in Orkney there is the sense⟳ of age, the dark backward and abysm,” the late Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown wrote. “The islands have⟳ been inhabited for a very long time, from before the day of the plough.””

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