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peninsula

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
pəˈnɪn.sjə.lə

Definitions

  1. A township in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States.
  2. A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass
  3. A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.
  4. A village in Summit County, Ohio, United States.
  5. Ellipsis of Iberian Peninsula.

Equivalents

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Examples

Man cancelling Lisa's inauguration as president: I sentence you to a lifetime of horror on Monster Island. Don't worry, it's just a name. [Lisa and others are chased by fire-breathing monsters] Lisa: He said it was just a name! Man being chased by monsters: What he meant is that Monster Island is actually a peninsula.”
“[W]ith the exceptions of Switzerland, Sweden and the Peninsula, the whole of Europe was now in the grip of Hitler[.]”

CEFR level

C2
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