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Back of the Wight

Back of the Wight proper noun: an area on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, England.

Proper noun

Back of the Wight

  1. An area on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, England.
    • Other proposals were for an extension of the railway to Totland Bay, where the company had already acquired an hotel; and for a line from Freshwater to Brightstone [sic: Brighstone] and Ventnor, to serve the sparsely-populated south-western coast of the island, known as the Back of the Wight.1947 May and June, K. Westcott Jones, “The Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 145–146

Questions about Back of the Wight

What does Back of the Wight mean?
Back of the Wight means an area on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, England.
What part of speech is Back of the Wight?
Back of the Wight is a proper noun.

Words near Back of the Wight in the dictionary

  1. back of house
  2. back of one's hand
  3. back of one's mind
  4. back of the book
  5. back of the net
  6. Back of the Wight
  7. back off
  8. back office
  9. back offices
  10. back on to
  11. back one out

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