british isles

1. 1.

   Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic

   Broaderisland

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   PartsGreat BritainIrelandUnited KingdomChannel IslandManWight

Questions about british isles

What does british isles mean?

british isles means "Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic".

Is british isles a common word?

british isles is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.