British Isles

plural noun

1. a group of islands in W Europe: Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and adjacent small islands. 120,592 sq. mi. (312,300 sq. km).

British Isles

plural noun

1. a group of islands in W Europe, consisting of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Orkney, Shetland, the Channel Islands belonging to Great Britain, and the islands adjacent to these

British Isles

1. The islands of Great Britain and Ireland and a number of smaller islands off their coasts.

Example Sentences

The Channel Islands-based airline, which employed about 100 staff, operated flights to various locations in the British Isles, and also to Bruges and Paris.

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This isn’t the first time musicians from the British Isles have had to educate Americans on their own culture.

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However, this will be short-lived, as cooler, unsettled weather will develop as the storm arrives over the British Isles on Tuesday.

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Far more so than other Celtic strongholds in the British Isles — Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Cornwall — Wales has hung on to its tongue, about which shifting opinions have formed over the years.

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The majority will fall in the north-west of the British Isles.

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