peninsular

comparative more peninsular · superlative most peninsular

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

plural peninsulars · plural peninsulares

1. One who inhabits a peninsula.
2. historicalA person born on the Iberian Peninsula who emigrated to a (contemporary or former) Spanish colony.

   Some of the great merchants in the Indies were creoles, but the majority were peninsulares. These latter acted as effective intermediaries between Spain and the colonies.

   1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 131

3. misspellingMisspelling of peninsula, found chiefly in non-rhotic accents.

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