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

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

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

But this is exactly what's happening at the Ness of Brodgar, one of the most important Neolithic sites in the British Isles.

From BBC

Maureen Sweeney was a postal clerk at Blacksod Point on the northwest coast of Ireland, where one of her duties was to record data that fed into weather forecasts for the British Isles.

From Seattle Times