peninsula

«peninsula» in Mova's school dictionary: a piece of land that is almost surrounded by water but… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a peninsula, peninsulas)

meaning for a pupil

1) A peninsula is a piece of land that is almost surrounded by water but joined to a larger piece of land on one side. tree →

2) Famous peninsulas include Florida, Italy, Cape York in Australia and the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography a peninsula is one of the main landforms, next to an island (water all round) and an isthmus (a narrow neck of land). On maps it looks like land poking out into the sea. Phrases: «on the peninsula», «the tip of the peninsula».

examples

• Florida is a peninsula in the south-east of the USA. tree →
• Italy is a peninsula shaped like a boot. tree →
• We drove to the end of the peninsula to see the lighthouse. tree →
• A peninsula has water on three sides. tree →
• The Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand has lovely beaches. tree →
• On the map, colour the peninsula green. tree →
• In particular, the majority of the Drolls or comic tales and jingles can be traced, without much difficulty, back to the Indian peninsula. tree →

note

Countable: peninsula, peninsulas. The adjective is «peninsular» (with -r). Don't confuse with an island: an island has water all around it, a peninsula is still joined to the land.

In the corpora

• Florida is a warm peninsula in the south-east, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «peninsula» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.