Western Isles
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈwɛstənˈaɪ̯lz/
Proper noun
  1. The Outer Hebrides, an archipelago of the Hebrides in Scotland.
    • 1606 - William Shakespeare, Macbeth Act I, Scene II
      Captain: The multiplying villainies of nature / Do swarm upon him - from the Western Isles.
  2. A council area in Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996, the Western Isles Council (officially Scottish Gaelic Comhairle nan Eilean Siar since 1997).



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