peninsular

大学

a. 半岛的

发音

UK /pəˈnɪn.sjə.lə(ɹ)/
其它
UK /ˈpɛn.ɪn.sjʊ.lə(ɹ)/
US /pəˈnɪn.sə.ləɹ/
AU /pəˈnɪn.ʃə.lə(ɹ)/

词形变化

peninsulares peninsulars 复数 peninsulars peninsulares 复数 more peninsular 比较级 most peninsular 最高级

教材释义与例句

名词

半岛居民

形容词

半岛的;形成半岛的;半岛状的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One who inhabits a peninsula.

  2. 2.

    A person born on the Iberian Peninsula who emigrated to a (contemporary or former) Spanish colony.

    历史
  3. 3.

    Misspelling of peninsula, found chiefly in non-rhotic accents.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:peninsular.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of, pertaining to, resembling, or connected with a peninsula or peninsulas.

    The lakeside cottage was on a peninsular spit of land.

  2. 2.

    Exhibiting a narrow provincialism; parochial.

    Near-synonym: insular

相关短语

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin paenīnsulāris. By surface analysis, peninsula + -ar. In the historical sense borrowed from Spanish peninsular.

来源:wiktionary