islands of the north atlantic
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Great Britain, Ireland and surrounding smaller islands; the British and Irish Isles.
name
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see islands, North Atlantic.
Example Sentences
- "All of us in the islands of the North Atlantic should recognise new alignments are necessary and "we should be prepared to sacrifice for the new shared future"."
- "As the Islands of the North Atlantic were mapped and remapped in the early modern period, as maps were decorated and redecorated, the bodies of Britain's and Ireland's heterogeneous inhabitants were fashioned and refashioned..."
- "The continuing presence of Irish volunteers in the British armed forces — and, for over 20 years, as conscripts - serves to underline how relations within 'IONA' - the 'Islands of the North Atlantic' - remain more complex than constitutional niceties appear to dictate."
Etymology
Suggested in 1980 by MP John Biggs-Davison as the name for what ultimately became the British-Irish Council, subsequently adopted as a replacement for the contested term British Isles. A contrived acronym suggesting Iona, an island with cultural ties to both Britain and Ireland.