outer hebrides

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   a 130-mile long archipelago to the northwest of Scotland

   Broaderarchipelago

   Part ofHebrides

Questions about outer hebrides

What does outer hebrides mean?

outer hebrides means "a 130-mile long archipelago to the northwest of Scotland".

Is outer hebrides a common word?

outer hebrides 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.