Frisian Islands

[ frizh-uhn ahy-luhndz, free-zhuhn ]

plural noun

1. a chain of islands in the North Sea, extending along the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark: includes groups belonging to the Netherlands West FrisiansWest Frisian Islands and to Germany East FrisiansEast Frisian Islands and a group divided between Germany and Denmark North FrisiansNorth Frisian Islands.

Frisian Islands

plural noun

1. a chain of islands in the North Sea along the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark: separated from the mainland by shallows

Example Sentences

Nearly all the masculine population of the Frisian Islands were seamen prior to 1807.

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I lived for ten days on a big rye loaf over in the Frisian Islands.'

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He sent for me and asked me a lot of questions, specially about Kiel and the Frisian Islands.

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Those are the Frisian Islands, and they stretch for 120 miles or so eastward.

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