peninsular
Americanadjective
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occurring on, forming, or relating to a peninsula.
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of or relating to the Iberian Peninsula.
noun
Explanation
Use the adjective peninsular to describe a near-island that is connected to the mainland. Every good noun needs an associated adjective, and you won't have any difficulty in discerning where this one comes from. A peninsula is a piece of land that juts out into the water, nearly an island. Something that's peninsular looks like a peninsula or is a geographical area with a lot of peninsulas. The coast of Maine, for example, is peninsular, lined with thin necks of land. The Latin root, pæninsula, literally means "almost an island."
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Example Sentences
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“Those three years in the Peninsular War were a coming of age for William Miller,” Mr. Hemming writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
We now know that it began to arrive in Iberia as early as the 4th millennium BC, and that it gradually replaced Peninsular and Sicilian amber.
From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2023
The games were first held in the Thai capital Bangkok in 1959, and were originally called the South East Asian Peninsular Games.
From Seattle Times • May 5, 2023
Like the others, it is a habitat for the endangered Peninsular desert bighorn sheep.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023
An even more drastic linguistic upheaval must have swept over tropical Southeast Asia to the south of China—in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Peninsular Malaysia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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