noun
a large mass of land projecting into a body of water (Freq. 1)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑peninsular
• Hypernyms: ↑land, ↑dry land, ↑earth, ↑ground, ↑solid ground, ↑terra firma
• Instance Hyponyms:
↑Asia Minor, ↑Anatolia, ↑Balkan Peninsula, ↑Balkans, ↑Indochina, ↑Indochinese peninsula, ↑Yucatan, ↑Yucatan Peninsula, ↑Scandinavia, ↑Scandinavian Peninsula, ↑Jutland, ↑Jylland, ↑Peloponnese, ↑Peloponnesus, ↑Peloponnesian Peninsula, ↑Italian Peninsula, ↑Nova Scotia, ↑Arabian Peninsula, ↑Arabia, ↑Sinai, ↑Sinai Peninsula, ↑Korea, ↑Korean Peninsula, ↑Dae-Han-Min-Gook, ↑Han-Gook, ↑Malay Peninsula, ↑Iberian Peninsula, ↑Iberia, ↑Qatar, ↑Qatar Peninsula, ↑Katar, ↑Katar Peninsula, ↑Somali peninsula, ↑Horn of Africa, ↑Kola Peninsula, ↑Crimea, ↑Kamchatka Peninsula, ↑Taimyr Peninsula, ↑Taymyr Peninsula, ↑Seward Peninsula, ↑Cape Ann, ↑Cape Cod, ↑Alaska Peninsula, ↑Antarctic Peninsula, ↑Palmer Peninsula, ↑Cape York Peninsula, ↑Chukchi Peninsula, ↑Eyre Peninsula, ↑Labrador-Ungava Peninsula, ↑Labrador Peninsula, ↑Liaodong Peninsula, ↑Liaodong Bandao, ↑Lower California, ↑Baja California, ↑Lower Peninsula, ↑Upper Peninsula
Useful english dictionary. 2012.