Western Isles

British  

noun

1. Gaelic name: Eilean Siar.  an island authority in W Scotland, consisting of the Outer Hebrides; created in 1975. Administrative centre: Stornoway. Pop: 26 100 (2003 est). Area: 2900 sq km (1120 sq miles)

2. Also called: Western Islands.  another name for Hebrides

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Example Sentences

But the SNP did not have it all its own way, losing the Western Isles to Labour, as well as seats in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Time on the Western Isles passes like “a slow tide,” Mr. Stuart writes, and the novel abides by that erosive pace.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

In the Highlands and Western Isles, the wettest parts of Scotland, more than a month and a half's worth of rain has fallen.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

CalMac has now abandoned plans to temporarily re-deploy Glen Sannox to the Western Isles routes and it will stay on the Arran service once it is fixed.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

The Lecanora tartarea, a lichen producing a purple dye, growing on the stones of the Western Isles, and in Norway.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir