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peninsular

UK/pəˈnɪn.sjə.lə(ɹ)/UK/ˈpɛn.ɪn.sjʊ.lə(ɹ)/US/pəˈnɪn.sə.ləɹ//pəˈnɪn.ʃə.lə(ɹ)/

adjective

What it means

  1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or connected with a peninsula or peninsulas.

    The lakeside cottage was on a peninsular spit of land.

  2. Exhibiting a narrow provincialism; parochial.

    Near-synonym: insular

    Synonyms: insular

In a sentence

The lakeside cottage was on a peninsular spit of land.

Where it comes from

  1. Spanishpeninsular
  2. Latinpaenīnsulāris
  3. Englishpeninsular

Learned borrowing from Latin paenīnsulāris. By surface analysis, peninsula + -ar. In the historical sense borrowed from Spanish peninsular.

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