western isles

Questions about western isles

What does western isles mean?

western isles means "a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland".

What is another word for western isles?

Close synonyms include Hebrides, Hebridean Islands, Hebridean Isles, Western Islands. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is western isles a common word?

western 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.