Synonyms for British Isles
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1. British Islesnoun

   Synonyms:
   Anglo-Celtic Isles

2. British Islesnoun

   A group of islands off the northwest coast of mainland Europe, comprising Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Wight, the Isles of Scilly, the Isle of Man, the Outer Hebrides, the Inner Hebrides, the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands and many other smaller islands. Use may include the Channel Islands, although these are physically closer to mainland Europe.

   Synonyms:
   Anglo-Celtic Isles

Princeton's WordNet

1. British Islesnoun

   Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic

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1. • Atlantic
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1. Melanie Giles:

   It really is absolutely a unique find in the British Isles and in the wider continent, we dont have another burial that combines this quality of weaponry andCeltic artwith a date that puts it around the time of Caesars attempted conquest of Britain.

2. Luke Glowacki:

   The fact that a lullaby, healing song or dance song from the British Isles or anywhere else in the world has many musical features in common with the same kind of song from hunter-gatherers in Australia or horticulturalists in Africa is remarkable.

3. Royal Bank:

   Our long-term vision is a scalable and more focused wealth management business serving high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients from our key operational hubs in Canada, the U.S., the British Isles and Asia.

4. Marc Neveu:

   This is the first explanation consistent with data returned from NASAs Cassini spacecraft for how a tiny moon such as Enceladus, which is only about as big as Washington state or the British Isles, has a subsurface ocean when other sibling moons that are bigger or closer to Saturn, and therefore more likely to have such oceans, do not.

5. Jerry Amokwandoh:

   [ The court ] dismissed the idea that our family life included our family around the world, or our family back home, and they were saying that your family can only be limited to the British isles. It's a colonial mindset.