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ORKNEY ISLANDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Holonyms ("Orkney Islands" is a part of...):
Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)
Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)
North Sea (an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970)
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