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

How much oil — and how much profit — remain beneath the waters that buffet the British Isles?

From BBC

Fires have blazed across North America this summer, and smoke particles have been carried by the jet stream to the skies above the British Isles.

From BBC

Nazi Germany would have had the time and resources, and an improved strategic position occupying the British Isles, to develop bombers with intercontinental range, as it still tried to do even when under enormous pressure from Britain, the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the closing phase of the war.

From Salon

Lough Neagh is the largest body of fresh water in the British Isles.

From BBC

Jersey and the Isle of Man are part of the British Isles but set their own laws.

From BBC