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# peninsula

noun (a peninsula, peninsulas)

«peninsula» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peninsula/#m1)
2. Famous peninsulas include Florida, Italy, Cape York in Australia and the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peninsula/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peninsula/#x1)
- Italy is a peninsula shaped like a boot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peninsula/#x2)
- We drove to the end of the peninsula to see the lighthouse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peninsula/#x3)
- A peninsula has water on three sides. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peninsula/#x4)
- The Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand has lovely beaches. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peninsula/#x5)
- On the map, colour the peninsula green. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peninsula/#x6)
- In particular, the majority of the Drolls or comic tales and jingles can be traced, without much difficulty, back to the Indian peninsula. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peninsula/#x7)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «peninsula» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peninsula/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«peninsula» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/peninsula.html) on Mova free.