upper peninsula

1. 1.

   the peninsula between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan that forms the northwestern part of Michigan

   Broaderpeninsula

   Part ofMichigan

Questions about upper peninsula

What does upper peninsula mean?

upper peninsula means "the peninsula between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan that forms the northwestern part of Michigan".

Is upper peninsula a common word?

upper peninsula 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.