Western Isles
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɛstənˈaɪ̯lz/
Proper noun
- The Outer Hebrides, an archipelago of the Hebrides in Scotland.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Captain: The multiplying villainies of nature / Do swarm upon him - from the Western Isles.
- A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996, the Western Isles Council (officially Scottish Gaelic Comhairle nan Eilean Siar since 1997).
Translations
Outer Hebrides — see Outer Hebrides
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