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Shetland Islands

Shetland Islands proper noun: an archipelago and council area of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands; the northernmost part of Scotland and the United Kingdom.

Proper noun

Shetland Islands

  1. An archipelago and council area of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands; the northernmost part of Scotland and the United Kingdom.

Origin of Shetland Islands

See Shetland.

Words formed from Shetland Islands

Questions about Shetland Islands

What does Shetland Islands mean?
Shetland Islands means an archipelago and council area of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands; the northernmost part of Scotland and the United Kingdom.
What part of speech is Shetland Islands?
Shetland Islands is a proper noun.

Words near Shetland Islands in the dictionary

  1. Shete
  2. Shetes
  3. sheth
  4. sheths
  5. shetland
  6. Shetland Islands
  7. Shetland Isles
  8. Shetland lace
  9. Shetland ponies
  10. Shetland pony
  11. Shetland sheepdog

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